LAVA JATO PLEA BARGAIN DOCUMENT RELEASE RELEASES DELUGE OF NEW HIGH PROFILE CORRUPTION CASES
April 1st, 2017
THE RELEASE of dozens of plea bargain testimonies from executives at Brazilian constructor Odebrecht have sparked a flood of high profile criminal investigations for illegal graft within the country’s sprawling ‘lava jato’ (car wash) corruption probe. The inquiries that started looking into shady dealing at the state-run oil major Petrobras may now have reached a climax, with judges opening investigations into eight government ministers, 12 governors, hundreds of public officials and lawmakers and all of the country’s five living former presidents. The ...
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