Tio länder går samman i mututredning
Åklagare i tio latinamerikanska länder har gått samman för att dela bevis i den gigantiska korruptionsutredningen av det brasilianska företaget Odebrecht. Det rapporterar Reuters. Syftet är att snabba på utbytet av information mellan länderna och undvika byråkratiska hinder. Samtidigt kräver Peru tillbaka motsvarande nära 600 miljoner kronor från de som anklagas för att ha tagit emot mutor från Odebrecht.
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Wikipedia (en)
Odebrecht Organization (Brazilian Portuguese: [odɛˈbɾɛ(t͡)ʃ]) is a Brazilian conglomerate consisting of diversified businesses in the fields of engineering, construction, chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador da Bahia by Norberto Odebrecht, and is now present in South America, Central America, North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Its leading company is Norberto Odebrecht Construtora.
Odebrecht S.A. is a holding company for Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A., the biggest engineering and contracting company in Latin America, and Braskem S.A., the largest petrochemicals producer in Latin America and one of Brazil's five largest private-sector manufacturing companies. Odebrecht controls Braskem, the fifth largest petrochemical company in the world, with exports to 60 countries in all continents of the world. By revenue, Braskem is the fourth largest petrochemical company in the Americas and the seventeenth in the world.
On 19 June 2015, Brazilian authorities arrested the CEO, Marcelo Odebrecht, in connection with their ongoing probe into bribes paid by the Brazilian oil giant, Petrobras. On 7 March 2016 he was sentenced to 19 years and 4 months jail, for paying over US$30 million in bribes to executives of Petrobras, in exchange for contracts and influence.
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