{"id":72348,"date":"2016-03-09T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=72348"},"modified":"2016-03-09T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:57:37","slug":"former-odebrecht-boss-sentenced-to-19-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/03\/09\/former-odebrecht-boss-sentenced-to-19-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Odebrecht boss sentenced to 19 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Yesterday, Tuesday, 8 March 2016, a Brazilian judge sentenced Marcelo Odebrecht, the former chief executive officer of the biggest construction company in South America, to 19 years in prison for his involvement in a corruption scandal centered on Brazil&#8217;s state oil company, Petrobras.<\/p>\n<p> Odebrecht was convicted of money laundering, corruption and organized crime.<\/p>\n<p> Prosecutors claimed that some of Brazil&#8217;s largest construction firms, including Odebrecht, skimmed billions of dollars from Petrobras through inflated contracts, then channeled some of the funds to the ruling Workers&#8217; Party and its allies. Officials are now trying to establish whether other international leaders may also have been &#8220;persuaded&#8221; to award contracts to Odebrecht SA, and a series of big infrastructure deals made between 2011 and 2014, which Odebrecht won with nations including Ghana, Angola, the Dominican Republic and Cuba are under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/odebrecht-ex-ceo-sentenced-to-19-years-in-prison-1457449835<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Tuesday, 8 March 2016, a Brazilian judge sentenced Marcelo Odebrecht, the former chief executive officer of the biggest construction company in South America, to 19 years in prison for his involvement in a corruption scandal centered on Brazil&#8217;s state oil company, Petrobras. Odebrecht was convicted of money laundering, corruption and organized crime. Prosecutors claimed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/03\/09\/former-odebrecht-boss-sentenced-to-19-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}