Overview

• On the second day of oral hearings, prosecutor José Domingo Pérez presented opening arguments alleging illicit contributions that funded Villarán’s 2013 anti-recall effort and her 2014 reelection bid.
• The Fiscalía maintains that around US$11 million from Odebrecht (now Novonor) and OAS were paid in exchange for favorable concessions and addenda, including roughly 30 negotiations tied to a 10-year extension of the Línea Amarilla contract.
• Pérez ratified his request for a 29-year prison term, 426 days-multa, and seven years of disqualification from public office for Villarán on charges including money laundering and aggravated collusion.
• Villarán acknowledges receiving campaign money from the Brazilian firms but denies any quid pro quo, asserting that the original 2009 Línea Amarilla terms were set under Luis Castañeda and that later tariff increases took effect after her term.
• The case encompasses about 20 defendants and several companies, with procedural complications that include questions over OAS ex-chief Leo Pinheiro’s collaboration status and the June death of ex-municipal manager José Miguel Castro.