As highlighted in this prior post, in September 2020 the DOJ announced that Javier Aguilar (a trader at the U.S. subsidiary of Vitol Inc.) was criminally charged for “his alleged participation in a five-year international bribery and money laundering scheme involving corrupt payments to Ecuadorian officials.”
With discovery ongoing in the case and the trial date uncertain due to COVID-19, in November 2020 Aguilar filed a motion for a bill of particulars. Generally speaking, a bill of particulars is a request by a criminal defendant for more detailed information about the criminal charges beyond those alleged in the actual charging document.
As highlighted below, recently Judge Eric Vitaliano (E.D.N.Y.) denied the motion for a bill of particulars.
