DEATH OF JORGE ENRIQUE PIZANO, THE MAIN WITNESS OF THE ODEBRECHT CASE, AND OF HIS POISONED SON CONTINUES TO COLOMBIA.

To the sudden death of the key witness of the process, Jorge Enrique Pizano, last Thursday, was added the death by cyanide poisoning of his son Alejandro. This last information was confirmed by the Institute of Legal Medicine and the Colombian Prosecutor's Office this Tuesday afternoon.
"According to the results of the necropsy, the cause of the death was poisoning by ingestion of cyanide," says the report published by the Office of the Prosecutor.

The report adds that "the evidence collected in the residence of his parents indicate that the victim (last Sunday) would have found the cyanide in a flavored water bottle that was on his father's desk (Jorge Enrique Pizano), of the which took a sip. "Alejandro Pizano arrived in Colombia from Barcelona, ​​Spain, to participate in the burial of his father.
Jorge Enrique Pizano was the one who made the most important denunciations of irregularities in contracts and presumed bribes in a road construction project (Ruta del Sol II) in which Colombian consortiums and the Odebrecht company participated between 2010 and 2014.
Pizano was one of the auditors of that project and since 2015 he made public, according to him, serious discoveries in one of the most scandalous corruption scandals in recent years in Colombia.
Before dying, some sources pointed out that the examiner was trying to get US justice to turn him into a protected witness in exchange for the evidence he possessed. Two days after his death, the Colombian television channel "Noticias Uno" released audios of 2015 in which, said the media, Pizano is heard talking to the current Attorney General of Colombia, Nelson Humberto Martínez, giving him an account of the irregularities.

The news of the poisoning of Pizano's son caused the authorities to arrange a new investigation into the causes of his father's death. The original report established that the key witness had died of a fulminating heart attack. Shortly after the corpse was cremated.

"At the necropsy samples were taken from different tissues (from Pizano father.) The investigation that at this moment the Prosecutor's Office was looking for will surely dispose the analysis of these samples," Carlos Valdez, director of the Institute of Legal Medicine, told a press conference. The Office of the Prosecutor also tries to establish what a cyanide water bottle was doing on Jorge Enrique Pizano's desk at his farm in Subachoque, on the outskirts of Bogotá.