JoséDirceu,in full JoséDirceu de Oliveira e Silva,is a former Brazilian politician. His political rights were suspended by the Brazilian House of Representatives and he was found guilty by the Brazilian Supreme Court of active corruption and conspiracy in two separate lawsuits.
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.,better known by the portmanteau Petrobras,is a state-owned Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. The company's name translates to Brazilian Petroleum Corporation —Petrobras.
Silvio JoséPereira is a sociologist and co-founder of the Brazilian Workers Party. Born in Osasco,São Paulo,he was a key figure in the mensalão scandal and resigned from his post of secretary general of the party on June 4,2005.
Paulo Bernardo Silva is a Brazilian politician,member of the Workers' Party (PT). He was Minister of Communications during the government of Dilma Rousseff and Minister of Planning during the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Corruption in Brazil exists on all levels of society from the top echelons of political power to the smallest municipalities. Operation Car Wash showed central government members using the prerogatives of their public office for rent-seeking activities,ranging from political support to siphoning funds from state-owned corporation for personal gain. Specifically,mensalão typically referred to the practice of transferring taxpayer funds as monthly allowances to members of congress from other political parties in consideration for their support and votes in congress. Politicians used the state-owned and state-run oil company Petrobras to raise hundreds of millions of reais for political campaigns and personal enrichment.
Benedito Lyra is a Brazilian politician from Alagoas,member of Progressistas (PP),former Senator for his state and incumbent Mayor of Barra de São Miguel.
AndréSantos Esteves is a Brazilian billionaire businessman. Among Brazilian billionaires,Esteves is ranked 6th with a net worth of R$20.75 billion,according to Forbes business magazine. He currently serves as senior partner and chairman at BTG Pactual,the biggest investment bank in Latin America,and also as board member of Conservation International. In 2015,he was arrested by the Brazilian Federal Police in the context of the anti-corruption Operation Car Wash,and remained in prison for around three weeks;in December 2018,Esteves was acquitted of corruption charges. At a meeting on April 29,2022,the shareholders of the bank reappointed Esteves as board chairman.
Operation Car Wash was a criminal investigation by the Federal Police of Brazil's Curitiba branch. It began in March 2014 and was initially headed by investigative judge Sérgio Moro,and in 2019 by Judge Luiz Antônio Bonat. It has resulted in more than a thousand warrants of various types. According to the Operation Car Wash task force,investigations implicate administrative members of the state-owned oil company Petrobras,politicians from Brazil's largest parties,presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate,state governors,and businessmen from large Brazilian companies. The Federal Police consider it the largest corruption investigation in the country's history. The taskforce was officially disbanded on 1 February 2021.
Eduardo Cosentino da Cunha,is a Brazilian politician and radio host,born in Rio de Janeiro. He was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil from February 2015 until May 5,2016,when he was removed from the position by the Supreme Court. BBC News labeled him the "nemesis" of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. He was indicted in the scandal known as Operation Car Wash involving the state-owned oil company Petrobras and other corporations. Cunha was suspended as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies by the Supreme Court on the request of the Prosecutor-General due to allegations that he had attempted to intimidate members of Congress and obstructed investigations into his alleged bribe-taking. Cunha resigned from his position later,on July 7,2016,after a disciplinary process in Congress that had lasted nine months,making it the longest in Brazilian Congressional history. A series of legal manoeuvres had stalled the process and kept Cunha in charge of the Chamber of Deputies. While the Chamber's Commission of Ethics was divided on the issue until June,the Chamber of Deputies plenary,on September 12,2016,voted 450–10 in favour of stripping Cunha of his position as federal deputy for breaching parliamentary decorum by lying about secret offshore bank accounts.
Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht is a Brazilian businessman and the former CEO of Odebrecht,a diversified Brazilian conglomerate. In March 2016,he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for paying more than $30 million in bribes. The jail sentence was reduced to ten years in prison in December 2016 for paying a fine,admitting guilt and providing evidence to authorities.
João Vaccari Neto is a Brazilian banker and labor union leader. He is the Secretary of Finance and Planning of the Workers Party (PT) and was president of the cooperative known as BANCOOP. He is currently incarcerated in Pinhais near Curitiba.
Sergio Fernando Moro is a Brazilian jurist,former federal judge,college professor and politician. He was elected to be a member of the Federal Senate for Paranáin October 2022. In 2015 he gained national attention as one of the lead judges in Operation Car Wash,a criminal investigation into a high-profile corruption and bribery scandal involving government officials and business executives. Moro was also Minister of Justice and Public Security under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2020.
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff,the 36th president of Brazil,began on 2 December 2015 with a petition for her impeachment being accepted by Eduardo Cunha,then president of the Chamber of Deputies,and continued into late 2016. Dilma Rousseff,then more than 12 months into her second four-year term,was charged with criminal administrative misconduct and disregard for the federal budget in violation of article 85,items V and VI,of the Constitution of Brazil and the Fiscal Responsibility Law,article 36. The petition also accused Rousseff of criminal responsibility for failing to act on the scandal at the Brazilian national petroleum company,Petrobras,on account of allegations uncovered by the Operation Car Wash investigation,and for failing to distance herself from the suspects in that investigation.
Alberto Youssef is a Brazilian black-market banker. He has been implicated in several of Brazil's largest scandals during the past generation. He was a figure in the Banestado scandal,and later was a major target of Operation Car Wash,the official investigation of corruption surrounding Petrobras,the government-controlled oil company.
Ivan de Souza Monteiro is a Brazilian electronic engineer,former president of the oil state company Petrobras. Previously,Monteiro was CFO of the company. Before heading Petrobras,Monteiro worked in Banco do Brasil.
Vaza Jato,roughly meaning Car Wash Leaks,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. These officials include former judge Sergio Moro and prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol. The conversations were reported by the journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept in June 2019.
A long series of criminal investigations have occurred in Brazil associated with Operation Car Wash,since the first one began in March 2014. These investigations are considered offshoots of the original phased investigations.
A long series of criminal investigations have occurred in Brazil associated with Operation Car Wash. The first investigation was launched in March 2014,and is now known as phase 1 of the investigation,with subsequent inquiries numbered sequentially and having code names such as phase 2,phase 3,and so on. By September 2020,there were 74 announced phases of Operation Car Wash.
The Odebrecht–Car Wash leniency agreement,also known in Brazil as the "end of the world plea deal",was the leniency agreement signed between Odebrecht S.A. and the Public Prosecutor's Office (PGR) in December 2016,as part of Operation Car Wash. The agreement provided for the deposition of 78 of the contractor's executives,including the former president Marcelo Odebrecht,and his father,Emílio Odebrecht,which generated 83 investigations at the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
This glossary contains Brazilian terms related to criminal or corruption investigations,and supporting concepts from politics,the law,government,criminology,and law enforcement.
