Hem
Arkivbild. (CARLOS JASSO / TT NYHETSBYRÅN)

Mossack Fonsecas grundare greps i går

De två personer som grundade advokatfirman Mossack Fonseca – Jürgen Mossack och Ramón Fonseca – greps på lördagen och anklagas formellt för penningtvätt. De uppges ha kopplingar till den enorma korruptionsskandalen kring byggbolaget Odebrecht.

Fonseca har tidigare nekat till att företaget ska ha haft några kopplingar till det skandalomsusade byggföretaget Odebrecht i Brasilien, som har medgett att de gett mutor för att få lukrativa regeringskontrakt i flera länder mellan 2010 och 2014.

bakgrund
 
Odebrecht
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.
Omni är politiskt obundna och oberoende. Vi strävar efter att ge fler perspektiv på nyheterna. Har du frågor eller synpunkter kring vår rapportering? Kontakta redaktionen