Colombia

Roberto Prieto was the manager of Juan Manuel Santos’s re-election campaign in 2014. He is one of the Colombian political operators with the most judicial fronts over Ruta del Sol. This piece does not follow the sentences, but the money. It reconstructs three distinct flows. The million dollars that Odebrecht paid to the 2014 campaign … Read more about Roberto Prieto: the trail of Odebrecht’s million dollars, the 650 million pesos of Ruta del Sol III and the posters the construction company paid for in 2010

Otto Bula was a Liberal senator and a cattle rancher from Córdoba. He became Odebrecht’s key intermediary in Colombia for adding the Ocaña-Gamarra section to Ruta del Sol II. He then became the witness who made it possible to convict others. This piece does not follow his conviction, but his money. It reconstructs how much … Read more about Otto Bula: the trail of Odebrecht’s 4,500 million pesos, the farm the Comptroller rejected and the 687 assets prosecutors seized

Bernardo Miguel Elías Vidal, «el Ñoño», was a senator for the Partido de la U and the great vote-getter of Córdoba. He is one of the politicians with the most final convictions in this series: three, none overturned. However, this piece does not follow the sentences, but the money. It reconstructs what he charged Odebrecht … Read more about Ñoño Elías: the trail of the 2 % of Ruta del Sol II, the 1,600 million pesos in bribes and the 13,600 million fine the Court imposed