Mexican president met Odebrecht, says he didn't get funds
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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is acknowledging that he met several times with officials of a Brazilian construction firm that has admitted paying bribes throughout Latin America.
But Pena Nieto's office denies a report citing Brazilian case files that suggested his 2012 election campaign might have received money from the Odebrecht company.
The office wrote in a letter published Tuesday by the newspaper Reforma that "no official of Odebrecht or its subsidiaries had any involvement in the campaign."
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The nonprofit group Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity had reported Pena Nieto's meeting, and said a top official of his campaign may have received $3.14 million from an Odebrecht front company. The official has denied that.
Pena Nieto's government drew criticism when it recently fired the electoral-crimes prosecutor investigating the case.