Tag: Odebrecht case

• Saturday, April 20th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Alan Garcia in suicide note denies all charges: “I leave my body as a sign of my contempt for my opponents”

  

  Peru's late former president Alan Garcia left a suicide note denying the corruption charges against him before taking his own life, one of his children revealed on Friday. Garcia, who was 69, died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head when police came to his home to arrest him over allegations of money laundering during his time in office.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 13:19 UTC

  Former ex-president Garcia shoots himself when police tried to arrest him

  

  Peru’s former president Alan Garcia shot himself early on Wednesday after police arrived at his home in the capital Lima to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation, a police source said.

• Saturday, December 29th 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Yet another witness in Odebrecht case found dead in Colombia

  

  Colombian former Secretary of Transparency Rafael Merchán, who had been slated to testify in the local version of the Odebrecht corruption scandal, was found dead, it was reported.