• PAYMENTS: Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht funneled US $4 million to the 2012 presidential campaign of now former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, according to Emilio Lozoya, then head of international affairs for the campaign and who now faces corruption charges in Mexico.
• PASTRY: According to a document delivered to Mexican authorities before accepting his extradition from Spain earlier this month, Lozoya argues that he himself arranged the payment at a pastry shop in Mexico City with Luis Alberto de Meneses Weyll, then Odebrecht’s head in Mexico.
• TESTIMONY: “The instruction (from campaign manager Luis Videgaray) was to arrange financial resources to cover various payments to consultants in electoral matters, mainly abroad”, says Lozoya in his written document obtained by Mexico City’s REFORMA newspaper.
• CONTEXT: Following the wide-ranging corruption probe known as Lava Jato, Brazil’s O Globo newspaper revealed testimony from Meneses Weyll before Brazilian prosecutors saying he had funneled US $10 million to Lozoya while he was part of the Peña Nieto presidential campaign.
