December 21, 2016
Posted December 27, 2016
Odebrecht S.A., a global construction conglomerate based in Brazil, and Braskem S.A., a Brazilian petrochemical company, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a combined total penalty of at least $3.5 billion to resolve charges with authorities in the United States, Brazil and Switzerland arising out of their schemes to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to government officials around the world in violation of the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It is the largest foreign bribery case in history. DOJ
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