Only \r\nin Venezuela, US$ 98 million was paid in bribes. Odebrecht, the Brazilian \r\nconstruction giant, not only admitted having bought officials in its country \r\n\u2014what had been revealing in the investigations of prosecutors and judges, but \r\nthat outside Brazil, the Bolivarian Republic was the place where it paid the \r\nmost bribes to get the best contracts.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
Two \r\nyears ago, the Lava Jato<\/I> Operation (\"Carwash\" in Portuguese) has shaken \r\nthe foundations of the Brazilian establishment. In July 2013, the Federal Police \r\nof Brazil tracked the suspicious movements of a man called Alberto Youssef, and \r\nby pulling that thread, not only did it find one of the commission agents - the \r\ninfamous doleiros<\/I> [black market dollar dealers] - but a cartel of \r\nbusinessmen and political leaders who managed the monopoly of state contracts. \r\nBut it was not until last Wednesday that some of Odebrecht's management abroad \r\ncame to light not exactly from Brasilia, but in New York.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\n
Construction \r\ncompany Odebrecht and its petrochemical arm, Braskem, pleaded guilty before the \r\ncourt of the Eastern District of New York for paying bribes of US$ 349 million \r\nin Brazil and another 439 million in a circuit of 11 countries, including Africa \r\nwith Angola and Mozambique, and Latin America with Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, \r\nGuatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and, of course, \r\nVenezuela, where they spent nearly a quarter of the total spent \r\nabroad.<\/p>\n\n
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