On the occasion of the news in which the so called Odebrecht firm admitted to having paid about 11 million USD in bribes in Colombia in order to benefit from infrastructure contracts, the Office of the Attorney General took the following measures:

  1. Yesterday, an investigation has been opened based on the public information provided by authorities of the United States.
  2. Judicial cooperation mechanisms with that country have been implemented in order to obtain useful information that will clear up facts.
  3. Today, inspections were conducted in several public institutions in order to gather evidentiary material. For this purpose, a group of prosecutors and investigators from the National Prosecutor´s Office specialized in Anti-Corruption formed a teamwork.