Miami Jury Convicts Former Comptroller General of Ecuador in Bribery and Laundering Scheme

        After the bribery and money laundering accusations, Polit was arrested in March 2022. Court documents and evidence presented at the trial show that, between 2010 to 2015, Carlos Roman Polit Faggioni, 73, solicited and received over $10 million in bribe payments from Odebrecht  S.A., the Brazil-based construction multinational.