This Word Means: Odebrecht Scandal | Explained News, The Indian Express

This Word Means: Odebrecht Scandal | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Om Marathe |Published: April 22, 2019 12:44:54 am

This Word Means: Odebrecht Scandal

Odebrecht Scandal has sent a once iconic South American leader to prison, and last week drove a former President to suicide. What is it?

Peru’s former President Alan Garcia shot himself in the head and died Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a massive graft probe that has put the country’s most prominent politicians behind bars and provoked a reckoning over corruption. (Reuters)

Peru’s former President Alan Garcia shot himself in the head last week after investigators probing his role in the Odebrecht corruption scandal sought to arrest him in Lima.

THE SCANDAL: