Gilberto Kassab is a Brazilian politician,former mayor of São Paulo. His term ended in 2013. A civil engineer and economist,one of the most famous Brazilians of Syrian descent,Kassab took over from JoséSerra,after Serra decided to run for governor of São Paulo.
Odebrecht S.A.,officially known as Novonor,is a Brazilian conglomerate,headquartered in Salvador,Bahia,Brazil,consisting of diversified businesses in the fields of engineering,construction,chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador,Bahia by Norberto Odebrecht,and is now present in the regions of the Americas,the Caribbean,Africa,Europe and the Middle East. Its leading company is Norberto Odebrecht Construtora.
Roberto João Pereira Freire is a Brazilian lawyer and politician.
JoséRenan Vasconcelos Calheiros is a Brazilian politician and former President of the Senate of Brazil. He has represented the state of Alagoas in the senate as a member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party since 1 February 1995. Renan's presidency of the Brazilian Senate,a term that started 1 February 2013,was revoked on 5 December 2016 by a minister of the Brazilian Supreme Court,Marco Aurélio Mello,who said that a person under investigation could not be in the line of succession for the presidency. However the Supreme Court decided 7 December 2016 that Renan could remain senate president,without being in the succession.
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian politician,lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. He had been the 24th vice president since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016,when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial. At the age of 75,he is the oldest person to have taken the office.
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.
Ciro Nogueira Lima Filho is a Brazilian lawyer,politician,and a member of the Progressistas (PP) party,of which he is the current president. He has represented Piauíin the Federal Senate since 2011. Previously,he was a Deputy from Piauífrom 1995 to 2011. He is a member of Progressistas.
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 Sergio 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.
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.
Events in the year 2016 in Brazil:
Rodrigo Felinto Ibarra Epitácio Maia is a Brazilian politician and served as President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil between July 2016 and February 2021. Maia is the son of former Rio de Janeiro Mayor Cesar Maia and he is in his fifth term as congressman. He was affiliated with the Democrats party,formerly PFL,from 1996 to 2021,when he was expelled for criticizing party president ACM Neto.
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.
Manuela Pinto Vieira d'Ávila is a Brazilian journalist,writer and politician,a member of the Communist Party of Brazil since 2001.
Events in the year 2018 in Brazil.
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.
The Odebrecht case is one of the largest corruption cases documented in recent Latin American history,spanning more than 30 years. It is based on an investigation by the United States Department of Justice,along with 10 other Latin American countries,into the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. This investigation details how Odebrecht would have made bribes to presidents,former presidents and government officials of 12 countries:Angola,Argentina,Brazil,Colombia,Ecuador,United States,Guatemala,Mexico,Mozambique,Panama,Peru,Dominican Republic and Venezuela,during the last 20 years,in order to obtain benefits in public contracting.
