Alex Vernot

Whitewshed Graves! Alex Vernot

This document reveals the extent of impunity insi- de the Prosecutor General's Office, which was per- meated by the interests of its leader. It provides an indictment-like account of the actions that set the course of the investigations into a number of serious corruption cases in Colombia, which have been stonewalled by a prosecutor who was being propped up by the most prominent figures of the nation Ìs financial and political power- houses who were involved with him in such wrongful acts. Vernot tracks down the actions of the former Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martínez Neira, in the web of corruption created by Odebrecht and its local partners in an attempt to be awarded public works contracts worth billions in the country. The author clearly shows how, while the top-le- vel offenders were convicted elsewhere in Latin America, the cover-up -Martínez's fundamental purpose while he was in charge of the Nation's Prosecutor General's Office prevailed in the Colombian case.