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a stockbroker rich to find out. the biggest corruption scandal in brazil and latin america began by accident at this petrol and car wash complex in the nation's capital. it was march seventeenth two thousand and fourteen and the federal police team had the location on the surveillance they believed it was the center of a money laundering operation run by a former convicted criminal i'll bet you're safe. to say only stassi the. latest date on the new leads

a group of state prosecutors overseeing what is now known or the carwash investigation discovered you know we may you intercept don't have to say. were made into a source but me that this is. a little bit of walking in one of the ways you know sort of at the price. that. they vectored put over us the national oil company turned out to be. the executive in charge of refining and supply if a school keep all about the cost of. the. i was arrested after trying to destroy evidence and held without bail. in. this. formal. about the cost of this is me is the boy's video. of what. he. is both so it's.

for your big. rover was just one of many bribes he received contracts to construction companies the money laundering yousef also negotiated a plea bargain with a law enforcement force that had been set up in the city of. confessed to police that they bribing scheme was much larger than anything they imagined he knew. this is. in the us in. all. those began a wide ranging investigation of corruption leading to the highest levels of brazilian financial and political power. still ongoing the carwash investigation has now spread to eleven countries more than one hundred fifty executives some politicians have already been arrested or convicted. the scandal is exposing an entrenched system in which multinational companies dispense personal and political

party bribes to promote their interests in the fallout is ensnaring letting american elites and shaking governments to their core. nuke is about as useful dog oops all. is fault or. you know with. an office of transparency international and n.g.o.s that combats corruption around the world he has been working closely with prosecutors on the carwash case. if you see is here the systemin just support us on the phone and. you're going to. the moon and systemize if you get on mir's most is there more than this if it inspires how could you explain the fact that you have a job to place here impressive how was it possible what was the significance of the case your problem on their own but as you were systemic or make a new year's more. sure no more deals what i mean to contractors

but is norfolk i scholar was followed is we normal g.p.s. so is the movie a result but is. this. not you know . there. was. possibly also. you know if you're going to federal police inspector philip has the financial crimes unit of the force of. your detective go. to tell you pretty serious problems. up little brass was he put as well as up while . for my brother to me. well as this. but i. don't enjoy. according to a secret agreement that existed for more than ten years the cartel would nominate

one of its members to be awarded each bit robust contract for refineries oil rigs and other multi-million dollar projects. but. the rules resulted in steep over payments for the work done. executives were bribed to go along and they coast built into the contract. in fact this can stretch far beyond two building stadiums for the two thousand and fourteen world cup the two thousand and sixteen olympics and other major infrastructure projects throughout the country . traditionally.

yaz is made usual your will to see. in june two thousand and fifteen the task force move against the construction companies in the cartel twelve top level executives were arrested. but. the most powerful. c.e.o. of the company that bears his name. is the largest construction company latino america its bing operation. members the most extensive in the region. this. blog is a source. that he she is please.

give me much. on march eighth two thousand and sixteen marcello the village was sentenced in one thousand years in prison for corruption money lie. and criminal association. we headed to some of the reno things brazil to get the other bridge company's response to the scandal the business was founded here in one thousand nine hundred four by monticello the bridges grandfather and the city is still its headquarters. all the spots show your current business interest or are very historical mostly. iraq and.

is a longtime member of the other bridgeboro played actors despite the conviction of its c.e.o. on the bridge still operating more than twenty countries around the world and had revenues of about twenty six billion dollars last year but there will always be voices. morgaine join with those but it is as though their british space was so obsessed fate. was out that i was there to watch you've read g g. g g absolute to suspect. the company was too slow to warm up to deny everything to deny deny and deny i know why this book by the way i'm more they seem to. really of this is. good use of use you can do it on a human school my eyes let me. do going to deck a busy deck of this deck at this to work in the wood as you keep other see the.

feared they'd of dodge it all being said of the mint. weasel why should we. expedite the process but it was to invent a corruption that it made war in a competitive way it was able to prove that it had also amazing capability of organizing a very efficient corruption and pulled the most of force gene but in the. with. c.b.s. all. sygate are already over. due for good review according to authorities other bridges that ran an

intricate off the books accounting system and how did so on bank to bribe note only company executives by politicians that started to become clear when marcello there but it's begun talking in hopes of reducing his one thousand years sentence. if. you want. to see. members of all the major political parties in brazil receive kickbacks in exchange for appointing petrobras executives dozens of congressmen senators and ministers have been implicated in this country or the bridge is testimony of a body blow to the workers' party a former president. and he successor the admiral said. after.

the medal said he was impeached you know was two thousand and sixteen two weeks later i was formally charged with corruption in connection with the carwash scandal well but i see sleep was being held to account investigators were also making steady progress on the international front with the help of the us justice department. the movement. is just so part of the scheme is a lot. about them all up on the monument if you're saying it was a. whole performance of those laughable of us for nasa. in december two thousand and sixteen the company pled guilty to american charges that it provided almost eight hundred million dollars in bribes for more than one hundred projects in twelve countries. all the british agreed to pay a three point five billion dollar fine and disclose details of its corrupt activities in latin america and africa. or the elementals of those those.

mills mechanism plug in play. whatever it is guilty plea set of investigations throughout latin america. key to those differences is suffering how the money flow from other bridge to corrupt officials through countries like panama that specialize in offshore banking. the nato. to us but. the investigative unit often i mean a newspaper. he says police investigators here uncovered up on a main company tied to all the bridge. to international and sort. of the nato they were it. they were like to. buy me

a sequel more went on. many of the shell companies used by members of the brazilian construction cartel to dispense bribes were set up by mossad fonseca the law firm of the center of the bottom up paper speak which exposed the financial dealings of some of the most powerful and wealthy people in the world most of. us yes. they have been. us. superman. this is he taught. us. as he get. to. call more. than their. pan am i was not only a conduit for corrupt payments it was

a good place for sweetheart deals. over there but it's. done. so are you doing at the moment all the ground on average or below. the hill that is between two thousand and ten and two thousand and fourteen on the bridge paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to secure public works contracts one of the most profitable was building the coast highway. but i think you know by on the edges you must. be a legislator with the country's governing body has been questioning the pricing of the project for years is a preexisting my your can we were going to give you. that immunity may may or. isat is a sin. and so the claim. in which i.

am and that. was. this was in july two thousand and seventeen other bridge reach an agreement with the panama to pay two hundred twenty million dollars in fines and provide information about public corruption to settle bribery charges in the country. by east board. that is. out of. kenya antonioni meaning me your only if. that means only watch you. mention some of the way other brits conducted its business are growing for old latin america. the latest flashpoint is peru where the country's ruling establishment is under siege from its connections to the company. better put

on paper let's listen for the figure beneath that out of. our tourney was there a one some just a public money paid off from two thousand to two thousand and five during the presidency of alejandro toledo now accused of receiving bribes from other bridge yeah most. of it just. sort of being the view we said again. while the british wanted the lion's share of a multi-billion dollar highway project in the peruvian coast to brazil and they got it too late though has been charged with accepting a twenty million dollar bribe to steal them the business according to the head of all the bridge in bed or who confessed in two thousand and sixteen the final deal was struck in brazil. to go to copacabana beach prison. there's a hole in your stomach but is actually a hundred billion in my special interview program prosecutors are trying to extradite a letter from the u.s. to face bribery charges which he denies. the british didn't just pay off indeed all

politicians the company promoted its interest by gaining influence over the political system itself in the early game. or not but i don't say you all would have. got to be in there but i'm over here and if you know your political scene almost in the fall it will be and then you know you know personally i am never. admitted to giving millions of dollars to the nationalist party to finance to complain about young. president from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and sixteen. if you only guess on google must sell every. illegal. you do in the days. when you. were a group doing. cheek want to please you can three million dollars and complain but at the city's company supported the left not only to promote other branches centrist in peru but to curry favor with loyalist workers party in brazil you know

what i'd wish she were imperiously key to the medical. presidential skit forcing. the ms million people each his money and. economic are here present allegedly. above is correct and if there. was a being will of the people political will for their own the you elect to see and to learn to see the. sort of the that they hear hear hopefully the. un at the end. zone with. the us it's only here though it was going to see a lot of people. both on his wife and i mean it area was general secretary of the nationalist party are now in prison awaiting trial. conservative opposition leader

. and her popular force party are also being investigated for taking money from other bridge to fund her two thousand and eleven presidential bid she says the accusation is false but marcello the bridge has testified that his company helped finance her campaign. on the in february but other confirmed giving more than a million dollars to support for in the presidential race why put up every day but if you have political say a bad apples but the obvious if you need a. source to neal or if you know economy you're in the door. that's december the car was kununurra right at the doorstep of purpose current president. yes it's in your genes eat list congress launch impeachment proceedings against christians keep alleging his companies received almost eight hundred thousand dollars from other bridge while he was serving as a public official who she's getting nice all wrongdoing and not only aborted

impeachment but prosecutors continue to investigate his company's dealings with other bridge that i sit at the nickel filling in that's it of atlantis we can it is . it is it all of it or not i mean they will one of the. bubbler scientist there was attorney general is overseeing the prosecution and investigation of perverts president and other high level officials for dealings with other bridge why do you think he led by jack oks went so far parole how does corruption in peru now compare with the historical corruption the standards here the most of. the debate most of it all but over the course was that another list. the business up about i wasn't a mother but it was shown to the lead to us. the very second film you're most likely to little's on the list out of the politicos and debase. the mannequin the most on his own almost as though he said we pull would look at the little it's less

if you're having a tough one isn't there when i can do nothing. in a little discipline that over there will mean. a week seems to bring new developments around the world in connection with a car wash scandal governments from a quarter to one go to are dealing with the repercussions of the case. back in brazil the supreme court is considering former president lula subpoena all of a twelve year sentence he received for corruption these plans to run for president i mean danger of being to rail. i love my job to l.a. just stop a bullet he don't know that political because india. has since stopped by their support but there is no need for. that discourteous in the system when they look at my said i'm a lot month is other if you need to know as opposed to you know ellis and i was selling real guns he approaches in the fall says there were democrats will file system g. started you did one sin stop but you sushi had

a deal so scarce as kooks on. this show i want out of a war me into this is cited but i would doubtless have bought into going to die i just thought it could cope so before that. i was one of the rich they don't any hopes the agreements he does sign with eight countries will allow it to continue operating us one of the largest construction companies in the world. well there was once to continue working and you'll give me a compelling reason why after all that we know after all the lies we were told. i should now trust all of us the waste for if you need to. process your couple more feeding. it worship is so over the key. that i will be at my art you know in order to go on my body up to you i just want to last december they kind of wish taskforce reimbursed bit of last more than two hundred million dollars that the company overpaid for contracts as

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