Peru demands cash payment from Odebrecht in plea deal talks

The office of Peru's attorney general announced on Monday that it has asked Odebrecht for a "significant sum" of money as part of talks towards a plea deal, after the Brazilian company acknowledged distributing bribes to unnamed Peruvian officials. The total amount Odebrecht will be required to pay will be negotiated with the company after it makes an initial deposit, said Hamilton Castro, the lead prosecutor investigating the public works contracts in Peru that Odebrecht may have won through br