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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 ...
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]
In early 2017, JBS was the target of several operations by the Federal Police (PF) and the Public Ministry (MPF), including Operation Greenfield, Operation Car Wash, and Operation Cui Bono?. [9] In late March, JBS executives and lawyers approached the Attorney General's Office (PGR) with the purpose of establishing a plea bargain agreement.
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 ...
The indictment process began on June 26, after it was filed with the Supreme Federal Court, to the case's rapporteur, Luiz Edson Fachin. The accusation was based on investigations opened within the Operation Car Wash, based on the testimonies of executives from the company JBS. Janot's report accused Temer of being the final recipient of a ...
Considered the largest corruption investigation in the country's history. [45] Phases of Operation Car Wash – (2014–2021) eighty individual operations which are part of the Car Wash investigation; Offshoots of Operation Car Wash (2015–2020) sixty additional operations spawned by the original investigation
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.
One of the targets was former Workers' Party treasurer Paulo Adalberto Alves Ferreira , arrested on 24 June, when he was the target of Operation Brazil Cost, an offshoot of Operation Car Wash that investigated fraud in Law 10.820 loans (Crédito consignado [i]) to civil servants. Ferreira was the target of a preventive detention warrant.