Peru demands cash from Odebrecht ahead of plea deal talks

[WorldNews]

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Peru has demanded a "significant sum" of cash from Brazilian builder Odebrecht before starting talks toward a plea deal that would reveal the names of officials it bribed over a period spanning three presidencies, the attorney general's office said Monday. Hamilton Castro, lead prosecutor investigating the company, declined to specify how much Peru was seeking initially, but said Odebrecht would have to pay a bigger sum later in a final agreement after it provides details on crimes it committed in Peru. Last month Odebrecht, a family-owned conglomerate at the center of Brazil's biggest ever graft scandal, signed a plea deal in the United States.

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