Colombia Opens 30-Day Period to Pick Judge for Odebrecht Case
- Government will choose from eight candidates submitted by ANI
- Arbitration hearing on highway-graft scandal set for Sept. 11
A truck travels across the Orinoquia Bridge in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela.
Photographer: Meridith Kohut/Bloomberg
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Legal efforts by the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht SA to get paid for work on a Colombian highway done before a bribery scandal halted the project have been delayed until Sept. 11 to replace a lead arbitration judge who died.
Colombia’s infrastructure agency, known as ANI, and the local unit of Odebrecht along with its partners were granted a 30-day extension on August 9 in their case for work on Ruta del Sol 2, according to people close to the decision. Jorge Arango Mejia, the lead conciliator of the three-member panel at the Center of Arbitration and Conciliation, died last month.