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the. we sent. 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 may you intercept don't have to say. were made into a source but me that this is. a little bit of walking into one of the ways you know sort of at the price. that. they vector of 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. ghost i was arrested after trying to destroy evidence and held without bail. in. this. form. of about the cost of this is me is the boy's video. of what. he. is both so is

this your source for your big debate. over was just one of many bribes he received contracts to construction companies the money laundering yousef also negotiated a plea bargain with the 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. that this is. as in. all. those began a wide ranging investigation of corruption leading to the highest levels of brazilian financial and political power. still ongoing the car wash 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 isn't sneering letting american elites and shaking governments to the court. but as useful. is fought door. with his liberal sealion office of transparency international and in goal that combats corruption around the world he has been working closely with prosecutors on the carwash case. the system exists. and. you're going to. move and the system is if. there were. spies how could you explain the fact that. took place here impressive how was it possible what was the significance of the case it was probably a month ago but as you. know.

what i mean to the point that was. i scholar was followed is well known as the movie result but he is. still. there today. was. possibly. federal police inspector phil. yes she has the financial crimes unit. to. tell us. because it was the laws of war. well as this. would be.

according to the secret agreement that existed for more than ten years the cartel would nominate one of its members to be awarded. for refineries and other multi-million dollar projects. with. 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 scheme stretched. to 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. against the construction companies in the cartel twelve top level executives were arrested. but. the most powerful prince. c.e.o. of the company that bears his name. is the largest construction company lot in america its bing operation. members and one of the most extensive in the region.

that he is to please. give me much. given. the force at that as. he told of the. he was up at the. on march eighth two thousand and sixteen marcello the village was sentenced to nineteen years in prison for corruption money laundering and criminal association. we headed to some other in northeast brazil to get the other british company's response to the scandal the business was founded here in one thousand nine hundred four by monticello their bridges grandfather and the city is still its headquarters. its role your current business interests or are very historic and mostly. iraq. is

a longtime member of the other bridgeboro played actors despite the conviction of its c.e.o. on the bridge the liberating more than twenty countries around the world and had revenues of about twenty six billion dollars last year there was. more gain but is there british space was substance fate. g g. g absolute the suspicion. of the company was too slow to warm up to deny everything to deny deny and deny this who. they seem to. live. on the u.n. went to school my eyes let me. do going to deck

a busy deck of the deck of the sea to walk in the wood as you keep either you see the. deer to market they did you danger dodge it all being set of damage by gov walmart was awash with. expedite the process but it was to invent a corruption but 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 pull the most a force gene but in the. air. with both arms out so. it's just said you want me see this all of you must say. sygate are you who've you must said the only evidence you. will get the sponge you you want for the preview

according to authorities other bridgehead of the vision that ran an intricate off the books accounting system and how did so on bank to bribe note only company executives politicians that started to become clear when marcello there but it's begun talking in hopes of reducing his one thousand years sentence for marcello. who is. going to have a. look to see. coming. 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 conflict other branches testimony of a body blow to the workers body of former president. and he successor the model said. after. she.

was impeached you know last two thousand and sixteen two weeks later you will i was formally charged with corruption in connection with the carwash scandal. well but as you sleep was being held to account investigators were also making steady progress on the international front with the help of the u.s. justice department is that by years. i knew this was just so part of the scheme is that. all of them all up on the moment you saying it was a. whole performance of those law for all of our g. and a yes for nasa. in the summer of 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 there but as little minutes of those

those it by. ms mechanism didn't play oh absolutely say. 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. but the. investigative unit i mean a newspaper. he says police investigators here uncovered up and i mean and company tied to all the bridge. even. at a roadblock when. they were acting like to.

buy me a sequel more. which. 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 a procedure which exposed the financial dealings of some of the most powerful and wealthy people in the world. most of. us yes. they've been. superman most of. us this is he. really said. but he said it in the end of the scene us by the way this is as you get. to rest of the program called more. than their c.s.i.

. but 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 didn't you know buy on the edges you might. want to risk. being 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 say yes when you. look at it that in your email. you know when you're nice you may be sad it's a sin. and so the city in which are.

you. us. in july two thousand and seventeen other bridge reach an agreement with the panama for e t s to pay two hundred twenty million dollars in fines and provide information about public corruption to settle bribery charges in the country. by. bored don't mean. by out of. kenya antonioni mean me your any if. that means only watch you. all the way other brits conducted his business are growing through old latin america. the latest flashpoint a spare room where the country's ruling establishment is under siege from its connections to the company. better on paper let's listen for you to go beneath that

i have a lead attorney was there a one some just the public on which 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 connecting the peruvian coast to brazil and they got it to live though has been charged with accepting a twenty million dollar bribe to steal them the business according to the head of all the british in bed or who confessed in two thousand and sixteen the final deal was struck in brazil. to copacabana beach business. but it never who knows some of it is actually hundred million my special interview proving prosecutors are trying to extradite a letter from the u.s. to face bribery charges which he denies. so the british didn't just pay off

individual politicians the company promoted its interest by gaining influence over the political system itself in the early game i believe it. or not but i can say you know what i have seen ok i've 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. receiving only guess on the little muscle of the british illegal may be days. when you. were a group doing. begin occasion she called the police you can three million dollars and complain but at the city's company supported the left not only to promote other

branches interests 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 ski forcing. that ms million people each his money and. economic are here present allegedly. she a god of us was corrected if there. was a being people political move for the on the you electricity and that's the the. sort of the that the hero police the. un at the end. with the us it's only here though it was going to see a lot of people. both amal and his wife nineteen at area who 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 most said all 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 them in developing a political say a bad apples but at the heels of his if he named after him in tippy toeing but he was forced to kneel for. economy. the door. that's december the car was kununurra right at the doorstep of purpose current president. yes it's your genes for risk on was launching beachfront proceedings against the sheen ski alleging his company's received almost eight hundred thousand dollars from other bridge while he was serving as a public official who she's getting nice all wrongdoing unutterably aborted

impeachment but prosecutors continue to investigate his company's dealings with other bridge i guess it has a little feeling in that it of atlantis when it is. it is it all of you know what i mean they were one of the. bubbler son just 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 the case went so far in peru how does corruption in peru now compare with the historical record absent of standards here in the most of the middle east. is that the brain is a bit but i'll get over that i guess was that in the drily. there be no separate but i wouldn't deny the previous owner the lead to us. the very second film oh sure you're most likely to the last of the list out of the politicos and debase. the heck in the messiah's own almost as well he said we pull but look at the little

salmon how it it's less if you're having edges when isn't there we're going to nest . in a little discipline that over there will mean. every week seems to bring new developments around the world the connection with the car wash scandal governments from a quarter to one gold 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 it don't die political because india. has since stopped by their support but there is no need for their ad discourteous in the system when they look at my i said i'm a lot month is that if you need to know as opposed to you know alison i was selling real guns here produced in the fall says there were democrats will file system and she started you did one sin stop but you sushi had

a deal so scarce as who'd sold my soul to quote this you are whatever a warm into this aside it would doubtless have bought into can you die just or you could cope so before that. i was one of the rich the company 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. or the us wants to continue work can you give me a compelling reason why after all that we know after all the lives we work towards . i should now trust all the british the waste for if you need to. process your top of my feed the answer they worship is the key. will be my article will be my. body up that you might want to last december the car which task force reimbursed bit of gas more than two hundred

million dollars that the company overpaid for contracts as a result of corruption by executives something construction company could tell. you so i almost said ok that it came out that despite the dock was the star that the pole but is on ice was the fault of the image coming down to those precise. incoming if i can also suppose it my says she is also scalp lost by his shop you know but as you always know where. home no i only wish you guys so i will process i love my shop boys you know but as you know much it too which i suspect that you have always had a bit as you. will know. if this decade and only then will work with it seems to sort of turn the head to my holding a sort of look if the most of the associated more could happen as well is where you can probably manage with a misstep a woman on carlisle so an idea from what you say he let's just say that. the better man indignantly you don't know almost the estimate because the significant aspect

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