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Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato, Portuguese pronunciation: [opeɾɐˈsɐ̃w lavɐ ˈʒatu]) was a landmark anti-corruption probe in Brazil. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Beginning in March 2014 as the investigation of a small car wash in Brasília over money laundering , the proceedings uncovered a massive corruption scheme in the ...
Portugal – Lava Jato has the support, in Brazil, of researchers who worked in Portugal on Operation Marquês, which brought about the jailing in late 2014 of former Prime Minister of Portugal, José Sócrates. In October 2013, Odebrecht funded a trip by former President Lula to Lisbon, in conjunction with the release of a book by Socrates.
On 16 November 2015, the Federal Police launched the 20th phase of Lava Jato, Operation Corrosion (Operação Corrosão), named after the daily struggle to fight corrosion in oil drilling platforms. The objective was to seize documentary evidence of crimes committed at Petrobras, which were revealed by Operation Car Wash. Roberto Gonçalvez ...
Vaza Jato, roughly meaning Car Wash Leaks (a word play with "Operation Car Wash" and "Leaks" – Lava Jato and Vaza, in Portuguese), is the term used by the Brazilian press for leaked conversations in the Telegram app about the actions, decisions and positions of officials conducting investigations for Operation Car Wash (Operação Lava Jato).
The show depicts Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato), an ongoing police taskforce that discovered a widespread corruption scheme involving the Brazilian government and several prominent engineering firms. [1] [2] The series premiered all episodes of the first season March 23, 2018, worldwide, on Netflix. [3]
Cunha was indicted in Operation Car Wash (Operação Lava Jato), the scandal involving state-owned oil company Petrobras. Prosecutors say he "took as much as US$40 million in bribes for himself and his allies, plundering Petrobras, the government-controlled oil company, while laundering money through an evangelical megachurch."
The aide also testified that Popular Force congresswoman Martha Moyano met with Benavides to remove two investigators, Rafael Vela and José Domingo Pérez, from investigations regarding the Lava Jato scandal, though the attorney general recommended that they should wait for further development or possible resignations. [6]
In 2014, while working in Curitiba, Sergio Moro became one of the head judges in Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato), a massive criminal investigation that started as a money laundering case and evolved to a huge corruption scandal crackdown, involving bribery and misappropriation of public funds by political authorities. [40]