Alan García, Ex-President of Peru, Is Dead After Shooting Himself During Arrest
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/world/americas/alan-garcia-dead.html
The charges relate to Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction giant, which last year admitted to $800 million in payoffs
in exchange for lucrative contracts for projects including roads, dams
and bridges. The company was a main builder across Latin America, where
it profited from a commodities boom that led to a huge spike in
infrastructure construction.
The
revelation that Odebrecht had secured contracts through graft set off a
flurry of investigations by prosecutors and lawmakers, principally in
Latin America, as they sought to learn who was on the receiving end of
the payments.
