The prosecutor José Domingo Pérez, a member of the Lava Jato special team, said Wednesday that what was said in the preliminary test hearing by the Peruvian-Israeli businessman Josef Maiman confirms what was said by the former representative of Odebrecht in Peru Jorge Barata about the treatment he reached with the former president Alejandro Toledo.
According to the Public Ministry, this agreement was for the peaks that the ex-president requested in exchange for the bidding of the interoceanic highway.
“What today has declared Josef Maiman, finally, corroborates in first order the treatment that Jorge Barata sustained with Alejandro Toledo between the amounts of Odebrecht and the amounts of Camargo and Correa of approximately US $ 34 million, ”said Pérez.
“The route that follows, after receiving that money, between various companies, that is what corresponds to the Ecoteva Case process and the corresponding criminal accusation by the superior prosecutor Rafael Vela has already been raised,” he added.
In that line, Perez explained that Josef Maiman He participated in the anticipated test hearing as a witness and not as an effective collaborator, so his testimony must be taken “like that of a witness” in the present case.
“You have to understand that [lo hecho por Maiman] today is not part of the effective collaborator process, today is a [participación en la] anticipated test hearing as a witness for the process that is being followed against Alejandro Toledo and the others investigated, ”he said.
This in reference to what was said by Toledo’s lawyer, Roberto Su, who questioned on Wednesday that Jorge Barata and Maiman give “different versions of the same fact” and that the prosecution has admitted both as “corroborated.”
Earlier, Josef Maiman confirmed at the early trial hearing and in response to the prosecutor’s questions José Domingo Pérez, which received in its accounts – in total – more than US $ 34 million from the Brazilian companies Odebrecht and Camargo Correa, in order to be transferred to the accounts of former president Alejandro Toledo.
Maiman Rapaport explained, via videoconference from Israel, that Odebrecht disbursed between 30 and 31 million dollars, while Camargo Correa paid 4 million.
For this case, Alejandro Toledo He has been required by Peruvian justice since February 9, 2017, when Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho issued 18 months of preventive detention against him. Along these lines, since Tuesday, July 16, 2019, the former head of state (2001-2006) has been detained in the United States, waiting for the justice of that country to determine whether or not to proceed with his extradition to Peru.
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