He was busted for taking $10M in Odebrecht bribes. Now he's being sued over the money
BY KEVIN G. HALL AND PAÚL MENA MENA
JUNE 28, 2019 07:00 AM
An Ecuadorian who relocated to Miami before being convicted in absentia in his home country of extorting bribe money from embattled Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht S.A. faces a potentially explosive civil lawsuit in South Florida that could add to his woes at home.
Carlos Polit Faggioni was Ecuadors longtime comptroller, a position that required him to sign off on public budgets and prosecutors said afforded him the ability to demand $10.1 million in payments from Odebrecht S.A.
Juan Carlos Sanchez, the deputy chief of mission at Ecuadors embassy in Washington, told the Herald earlier this year that Polit faces an extradition request by Ecuador. Coming from Ecuadors penal division of the National Court of Justice and sent to U.S. authorities by Ecuadors foreign ministry, the request remains active, Gonzalo Salvador, the ministrys judicial coordinator, confirmed on Friday.
Recently, the Polits were served papers at a relatives house in Miami for the civil lawsuit tied to the mushrooming Odebrecht scandal.
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