In a new development on the Odebrecht corruption scandal, Brazil media report that bribe-paying operations were carried out mostly from the Dominican Republic. As reported, leaked documents from the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil reveal that company CEO Marcelo Bahía Odebrecht stated that all the illicit and bribe-paying operations of the company were moved to the Dominican Republic given the security the country offered on matters of impunity and corruption.
The document states that Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht was concerned with the business security to carry out the bribe-paying operations in the United States. For that reason the so-called bribes department was moved to the DR in the second semester of 2014. Company executives Luiz Eduardo Soares and Fernando Migliaccio, based in Miami, USA, traveled weekly to Santo Domingo to work on these operations from the Dominican office.
17 April 2017
