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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 ...
Operation Car Wash was a nine-year criminal investigation (2014 – 2022) that began in Brazil and originally involved money-laundering at the state-owned oil company Petrobras and bribery of government officials, including politicians, senators, governors, and businessmen, which expanded to numerous other companies (notably Odebrecht) and a dozen foreign countries.
The action was an offshoot of Operation Car Wash that uncovered a corruption scheme in the electricity sector similar to that of Petrobras in the oil sector, and was conducted by the 7th Federal Criminal Court of Rio de Janeiro. [61]
Judge Balaoisa Marquínez had decided to combine the Panama Papers case with another known as “Operation Car Wash,” a major anti-corruption investigation that began in Brazil. On Friday, she ...
In June, the governor of Mato Grosso do Sul, Reinaldo Azambuja (PSDB), appealed to the Supreme Federal Court requesting the removal of Edson Fachin from the relator position in the JBS investigations, alleging that the plea bargains were not related to the corruption case in Petrobras (the main target of the Lava Jato investigations), [16] as well as questioning the benefits granted to the ...
A dramatic reversal by Justice Carmen Lucia led a five-judge panel to find former judge Sergio Moro had made biased decisions in overseeing the graft probe known as Operation Car Wash, throwing ...
According to the lead prosecutor of Operation Car Wash, Deltan Dallagnol, the leniency agreement provided the "greatest refund in world history". [24] Odebrecht and Braskem pleaded guilty and would pay fines of 3.5 billion dollars, the equivalent of 12 billion reals, 80 per cent of which would go to Brazil.
The “Car Wash” investigation began in March 2014 looking into black market money-changing involving a gas station in Brazil's capital, Brasilia, but it soon discovered billions of dollars in ...