Colombia to probe deaths of Odebrecht whistleblower, son, 14 November, 2018

Colombia’s attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into the deaths of a whistleblower and his son at the center of a corruption probe involving Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht...

Jorge Enrique Pizano...died last week at his home...It said that [Pizano's son] drank from a bottle of water on his father’s desk and was dead from cyanide poisoning within minutes.

Pizano, an auditor for the Ruta del Sol II roadway concession in which Odebrecht was a partner, had been assisting prosecutors investigating allegations that the Brazilian firm paid some $30 million in bribes to secure Colombian infrastructure contracts...

Odebrecht did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.

The project Pizano audited was a 2010 partnership between Odebrecht and a unit of Colombia’s Grupo Aval, the country’s largest financial firm, to build a 528 kilometer (328 mile) highway to Colombia’s Caribbean coast. The contract was worth about $1.7 billion.