A news release from US DoJ on 14 December advised that Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Linares, 42, a citizen of Panama and Italy, had pleaded guilty in New York to laundering $28 million in a massive bribery and money laundering scheme involving Odebrecht SA, the Brazil-based global construction conglomerate. He had been extradited from Guatemala on 10 December and, on that same say, his co-defendant and brother, Luis Enrique Martinelli, who had also been extradited from Guatemala, also pleaded guilty in connection with the same scheme.
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