Operation Car Wash

The initial accusation came from businessman Hermes Magnus in 2008, who reported an attempt to launder money through his company, Dunel Indústria e Comércio, a manufacturer of electronic components. Ensuing investigations culminated in the identification of four large criminal rings, headed by: {{ill|Carlos Habib Chater|pt}}, Alberto Youssef, {{ill|Nelma Kodama|pt|3=Nelma Kodama}}, and Raul Henrique Srour.

Investigation at first focused on the four black-market currency dealers and improper payments to Alberto Youssef by companies who had won contracts at Petrobras' Abreu and Lima refinery. After they discovered that doleiro (black-market dealer) Alberto Youssef had acquired a Range Rover Evoque for {{Interlanguage link|Paulo Roberto Costa|pt}}, a former director of Petrobras, the investigation expanded nationwide. Once he was charged, Costa agreed to provide evidence to the investigation.Kamm, T. (2015). Making sense of Brazil's Lava Jato scandal. Brunswick Group, April. A newly adopted law introduced 'rewarded collaboration' (Colaboração premiada){{efn|name="Col-prem"}}{{efn |name="Del-prem"}} a type of plea bargaining involving sentence reductions for defendants who cooperate in investigations. Costa's deposition showed which political parties controlled Petrobras.Arruda de Almeida, M., & Zagaris, B. (2015). Political Capture in the Petrobus Corruption Scandal: The Sad Tale of an Oil Giant. Fletcher F. World Aff., 39, 87.

It also led to a wave of arrests. Fernando Soares, also known as "Fernando Baiano", a businessman and lobbyist, was allegedly the connection between major Brazilian construction firms and the government formed by the Workers’ Party (PT) and Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB).{{Cite news|url=https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/executivo-revela-atuacao-de-operador-do-pmdb-na-andrade-gutierrez/ |title=Executivo revela atuação de operador do PMDB na Andrade Gutierrez |trans-title=Executive reveals PMDB operator performance at Andrade Gutierrez |work=Fausto Macedo|access-date=9 November 2018|language=pt-br}}{{cite news|title=In Brazil, lobbyist confirms payment of bribes to lower house speaker |date=26 April 2016 |access-date=24 November 2019 |url=http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/politica/noticia/2016-04/brazil-lobbyist-confirms-payment-bribes-lower-house-speaker |agency=Agência Brasil| author=Luciano Nacimento |publisher=EBC }} After Costa and Soares, many others agreed to collaborate with the prosecution; between 2014 and February 2016, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office ({{Langx|pt|Ministério Público da União|links=no}}) filed 37 criminal charges against 179 people, mostly politicians and businessmen.{{cite web | date=17 February 2017 |title=The Lengthy Brazilian Crisis Is Not Yet Over (Issue Brief) |first=Sergio |last=Fausto |url=https://www.bakerinstitute.org/sites/default/files/2017-02/import/BI-Brief-021717-LAI_Brazil.pdf |publisher=James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy}} In December 2017, nearly three hundred people had been accused of crimes in the scandal.{{cite web|last1=Felter|first1=C.|last2=Labrador|first2=R. C.|date=2018|title=Brazil's Corruption Fallout|website=Council on Foreign Relations|url=https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/brazils-corruption-fallout}} After Marcelo Odebrecht, grandson of the company founder, was sentenced to 19 years in prison, he and other Odebrecht executives were, due to the sentence reduction incentives of the 'rewarded collaboration' law, willing to act as witnesses and to give information about the broader corruption scheme. Odebrecht had a secret branch{{efn|name=bribery-dept"}} used to make illegal payments in several Latin American countries, from Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to Ricardo Martinelli in Panama. Odebrecht was given fines totalling $2.6 billion by authorities of Brazil, Switzerland, and the United States after the company admitted bribing officials in twelve countries with some $788 million.

Costa and Youssef entered into a plea bargain with prosecutors and the scope of the investigation widened to nine major Brazilian construction firms: Camargo Correa, {{ill|Construtora OAS|pt}}, {{ill|UTC Engenharia|pt}}, Odebrecht, {{ill|Mendes Júnior|pt}}, {{ill|Engevix|pt}}, {{ill|Queiroz Galvão|pt}}, {{ill|IESA Óleo e Gás|pt}}, and {{ill|Galvão Engenharia|pt}},

as well as politicians involved with Petrobras. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who chaired the board of Petrobras from 2003 to 2010, denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.{{cite news|last1=Costas|first1=Ruth|title=Petrobras scandal: Brazil's energy giant under pressure|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-30129184|access-date=12 May 2015|work=BBC|date=21 November 2014}} The Brazilian Supreme Court authorized the investigation of 48 current and former legislators, including former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in March 2016. Eduardo Cunha, president of the Chamber of Deputies from 2015 to 2016, was convicted of taking approximately $40 million in bribes and hiding funds in secret bank accounts and sentenced to 15 years in prison.{{cite news|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/world/americas/brazil-arrests-top-lawmaker-behind-impeachment-of-former-president-rousseff-police|title=Brazil arrests top lawmaker behind impeachment of former president Rousseff: Police|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=20 October 2016|access-date=22 October 2016}}{{cite web|title=Former Brazil house speaker Cunha sentenced to 15 years for graft |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-cunha/former-brazil-house-speaker-cunha-sentenced-to-15-years-for-graft-idUSKBN1712DX |author=Brad Brooks |work=Reuters | date=30 March 2017 |access-date=15 September 2019}}

On 19 January 2017, a small plane carrying Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki crashed into the sea near the tourist city of Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro, killing the magistrate and four other people. Zavascki had been handling Operation Car Wash corruption trials.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-crash-idUSKBN1532WH?il=0|title=Brazil Supreme Court judge handling graft probe killed in plane crash|date=20 January 2017|access-date=20 January 2016|author=Raquel Stenzel|publisher=Reuters}}

A Miami Herald report noted in September 2017 that when Operation Car Wash began in 2014, fewer than 10,000 electronic monitoring bracelets were in use to enforce home detention sentences; by September 2017 the number had ballooned to more than 24,000.{{cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article171222962.html|title=Brazil engulfed in a corruption scandal with plots as convoluted as a telenovela|author=Mimi Whitefield|date=5 September 2017|publisher=Miami Herald|author2=Andre Penner|agency=AP|access-date=14 February 2018}} Caption to the photo within the article by Andre Penner of the AP

Petrobras delayed reporting its annual financial results for 2014, and in April 2015 released "audited financial statements" showing $2.1 billion in bribes and a total of almost $17 billion in write-downs due to graft and overvalued assets, which the company characterized as a "conservative" estimate. Had the report been delayed by another week, Petrobras bondholders would have had the right to demand early repayment. Petrobras also suspended dividend payments for 2015. Due in part to the impact of the scandal, as well as to its high debt burden and the low price of oil, Petrobras was also forced to cut capital expenditures and announced it would sell $13.7 billion in assets over the following two years.{{cite news|last1=Kiernan|first1=Paul|title=Brazil's Petrobras Reports Nearly $17 Billion in Asset and Corruption Charges|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazils-petrobras-reports-nearly-17-billion-impairment-on-assets-corruption-1429744336|access-date=12 May 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=22 April 2015}}

The conviction of Aldemir Bendine, Petrobras' former CEO, on corruption charges was annulled by the Supreme Federal Court in 2019 due to objections to the trial procedure.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2019/08/supremo-anula-decisao-de-moro-em-condenacao-da-lava-jato.shtml|title=Supremo anula pela primeira vez condenação imposta por Moro na Lava Jato |trans-title=Supreme Court for First Time Annuls a Conviction Imposed by Moro in Operation Car Wash |publisher=Folha de S.Paulo| date=27 August 2019 |language=pt|access-date=29 August 2019}}

{{See also|BTG Pactual|Odebrecht|Mensalão|Eike Batista|Sérgio Cabral|BANCOOP case}}

• The treasurer of the Workers' Party (PT), João Vaccari Neto, was arrested for receiving "irregular donations".{{cite news|last=Jelmayer|first=Rogerio|title=Brazil Police Arrest Workers' Party Treasurer João Vaccari Neto|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-police-arrest-workers-party-treasurer-joao-vaccari-neto-1429100123|access-date=27 August 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=15 April 2015}}
• The former chief of staff for President Lula, José Dirceu, was arrested for organising a large part of the bribery.{{cite news|last=Magalhães|first=Luciana|title=Brazilian Police Arrest José Dirceu, Ex-Chief of Staff, in Petrobras Probe|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazils-federal-police-charge-jose-dirceu-in-petrobras-probe-1438612314|access-date=9 September 2015|work=WSJ|date=3 July 2015}}
• The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), was investigated for receiving more than US$40 million in kickbacks and bribes.{{cite news|last=Romero|first=Simon|title=Expanding Web of Scandal in Brazil Threatens Further Upheaval|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/world/americas/expanding-web-of-scandal-in-brazil-threatens-further-upheaval.html|access-date=9 September 2015|work=The New York Times|date=21 August 2015}}{{cite web|title=Relatório da Polícia Federal acusa Rodrigo Maia de caixa três: Segundo a Polícia Federal, presidente da Câmara e o pai, Cesar Maia, receberam R$ 1,6 milhão da Odebrecht de forma velada, entre 2008 e 2014, por meio de outras empresas |url=https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2019/08/27/interna_politica,779299/relatorio-da-policia-federal-acusa-rodrigo-maia-de-caixa-tres.shtml |publisher=Correio Braziliense |author=Luís Calcagno |date=27 August 2019|language=pt |access-date=25 November 2019}}
• Former president (1990-1992) and senator (2007-2023) Fernando Collor de Mello was charged with corruption.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/former-brazil-president-collor-charged-petrobras-corruption-205108912.html|title=Brazil speaker, former president charged in Petrobras corruption|publisher=Yahoo|access-date=22 December 2016}}

On 8 March 2016, Marcelo Odebrecht, CEO of Odebrecht and grandson of the company's founder, was sentenced to 19 years in prison after being convicted of paying more than $30 million in bribes to Petrobras executives.{{cite news|last=Fonseca|first=Pedro|title=Former Odebrecht CEO sentenced in Brazil kickback case|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-odebrecht-idUSKCN0WA1X8|access-date=8 March 2016|work=Reuters|date=8 March 2016}}{{cite news|title=Brazil Petrobras scandal: Tycoon Marcelo Odebrecht jailed|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-35753774|access-date=8 March 2016|publisher=BBC|date=8 March 2016}}

In April 2018, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – after having been sentenced for passive corruption and money laundering in relation to a luxury apartment in Guarujá received from Grupo OAS – entered prison in Curitiba to serve his 12-year sentence. However, illegal communications between Car Wash prosecutors and its lead judge came to light in mid-2019, in which the parties suggested that their prosecutorial motive was to prevent Lula's re-election. There were calls to release the former president (see Leaked conversations below). As a result, he was released on 8 November 2019 after a Supreme Court ruling.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/08/lula-brazil-released-prison-supreme-court-ruling | title=Brazil's former president Lula walks free from prison after supreme court ruling | work=The Guardian | date=8 November 2019 | access-date=26 November 2019}}

On 3 July 2018, failed Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista was convicted of bribing former Rio de Janeiro governor Sérgio Cabral for state government contracts, having paid Cabral US$16.6 million, and was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-03/former-brazil-billionaire-batista-smacked-with-30-year-sentence Biller, David] "Former Brazil Billionaire Batista Hit With 30-Year Sentence," Bloomberg News, 3 July 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

Emílio Odebrecht said in a written report to the Attorney General of Brazil's Office (PGR) that he discussed donations to Worker's Party's (PT) campaigns with former PT president Lula. Financial support, according to the contractor, came even before Lula became president.{{cite web|url=http://veja.abril.com.br/politica/propina-devida-ao-pt-foi-discutida-com-lula-diz-delator/|work=Veja |access-date=13 April 2017|title=Propina devida ao PT foi discutida com Lula, diz delator |trans-title=Kickback Due to Worker's Party Was Discussed with Lula, Says Whistleblower |author=Rodrigo Rangel, Daniel Pereira, Robson Bonin, Laryssa Borges, Marcela Mattos, Felipe Frazão, Hugo Marques and Thiago Bronzatto}}{{cite web|url=http://www.opovo.com.br/jornal/politica/2017/04/seu-pessoal-esta-com-a-goela-muito-aberta-disse-emilio-a-lula.html|publisher=O Povo |access-date=14 April 2017|title="Seu pessoal está com a goela muito aberta", disse Emílio a Lula |trans-title='Your people have their greedy mitts wide open', Emílio told Lula |date=13 April 2017}} Marcelo Odebrecht said that the "Amigo" account for former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was created in 2010 with a balance of R$40 million. In his statement, he said he gave the money to Antonio Palocci, former Finance Minister and Rousseff's chief of staff, who had been the PT's contact with Odebrecht since the prior administration, when {{Interlanguage link|Emílio Alves Odebrecht|pt}} and Pedro Novis had handled payments. He said that in the middle of 2010, at the end of the Lula administration, he knew that Dilma Rousseff was going to take over and that the balance of the account would be "managed by her at her request". Thus, he set apart a sum that would be destined exclusively for the former president. He said that Lula never asked directly for donations and that everything was done through Palocci, but it became clear that the donations were ultimately for the former president.{{cite web|url=http://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/audio-marcelo-odebrecht-diz-moro-que-conta-amigo-referente-lula-comecou-com-40-milhoes-21197659|date=13 April 2017 | access-date = 13 April 2017|title=Audio: Marcelo Odebrecht tells Moro that he tells 'Amigo', referring to Lula, started with $ 40 million}}{{cite web|url=http://veja.abril.com.br/politica/lula-pediu-a-debrecht-40-milhoes-de-dolares-em-propina/|work=Veja|access-date=14 April 2017|title=Lula asked Odebrecht for $40 million in tips|date=12 April 2017|author=Rodrigo Rangel and Daniel Pereira}}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

On 4 March 2016, Lula was questioned for three hours as part of the fraud inquiry into the dealings of Petrobras, and his house raided by federal police agents. Lula, who left office in 2011, denied allegations of corruption. Police said they had evidence that Lula had received kickbacks. Lula's institute called actions against him "arbitrary, illegal and unjustifiable", since he had been cooperating with the investigations.BBC News [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35725415 Brazil Petrobras scandal: Former president Lula questioned] Lula, convicted of accepting bribes worth 3.7 million reals{{efn|name="Reals"}} (1.2 million dollars), was sentenced on 12 July to nine and a half years in prison.{{Cite web |url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2017/07/1900580-lula-e-condenado-a-9-anos-por-corrupcao-no-triplex.shtml |title=Lula é condenado a 9 anos e 6 meses de prisão por tríplex em Guarujá |trans-title=Lula Sentenced to 9 Years 6 Months for Guarujá Apartment |date=12 July 2017 |website=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt-BR |access-date=11 June 2019}} He appealed the sentence to the Federal Regional Court-4, which increased his sentence to twelve years and a month.{{Cite web |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2018/01/1953026-tribunal-aumenta-pena-e-condena-lula-a-12-anos-e-um-mes-de-prisao.shtml |title=Tribunal aumenta pena e condena Lula a 12 anos e um mês de prisão no caso tríplex |trans-title=Court Increases Lula's Sentence to 12 years One month in Apartment Case |date=24 January 2018 |website=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt-BR |access-date=11 June 2019}} On 5 April 2018, Moro ordered his imprisonment, and he surrendered two days later.{{Cite web |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2018/04/lula-e-preso.shtml |title=Lula é preso |trans-title=Lula Convicted |date=7 April 2018 |website=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt-BR |access-date=11 June 2019}}

The plea bargain testimony by Odebrecht Engenharia Industrial's former president Márcio Faria da Silva said that on 15 July 2010, President Michel Temer led a meeting about an agreement to pay approximately US$40 million in bribes to the Brazilian Democratic Movement in exchange for contracts with the international Board of Directors of Petrobras. According to Faria, Temer, who at the time was a candidate for vice-president on Dilma Rousseff's ticket, delegated to Eduardo Cunha and Henrique Eduardo Alves, then deputies and present at the meeting, the task of making the payments which represented 5% of the contract's value. The meeting took place in Temer's political office in São Paulo. He did not discuss any details about the financial agreement, limiting himself to trivial conversations about politics.{{cite web|url=http://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/temer-comandou-reuniao-de-acerto-de-propina-de-us-40-milhoes-afirma-delator/|publisher=Estadão|access-date=13 April 2017|title=Temer comandou reunião de acerto de propina de US$ 40 milhões, afirma delator |trans-title=Temer Ordered USD $40 Million Kickback Meeting, Says Whistleblower |author=Fábio Fabrini, Breno Pires e Carla Araújo, de Brasília|date=12 April 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://noticias.r7.com/brasil/temer-comandou-reuniao-que-acertou-propina-de-us-40-milhoes-da-odebrecht-diz-delator-13042017|publisher=R7|access-date=14 April 2017|title=Temer comandou reunião que acertou propina de US$ 40 milhões da Odebrecht, diz delator |trans-title=Temer Called Meeting That Paid USD $40 million Kickback from Odebrecht, Whistleblower Says |date=13 April 2017}}

Marcelo Odebrecht said in his plea bargain testimony that the Social Democratic (PSDB) party, led by Senator Aécio Neves (PSDB-MG), received at least 50 million reals in exchange for favoring the business contractor in energy deals. He said that improper payments were made due to business deals with two state companies: Furnas and Cemig. The first federal investigation was under the leadership of {{Interlanguage link|Dimas Toledo|pt|Dimas Fabiano Toledo Junior}}, an ally of Neves, in the early years of the Lula administration (2003–2005). The second state-run investigation was influenced by Aécio during the period when the PSDB was in power in Minas Gerais (2003–2014).{{cite web|url=https://epocanegocios.globo.com/Brazil/noticias/2017/04/odebrecht-grupo-de-aecio-teria-recebido-r-50-milhoes-por-influencia-no-setor-eletrico.html|publisher=Globo.com|work=Época Negócios|access-date=13 April 2017|title=Odebrecht: Grupo de Aécio would have received R$ 50 million for influence in the electric sector }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://oglobo.globo.com/brazil/odebrecht-group-of-aecio-received-50-million-by-influence-in-sector-eletrico-1-21201378|publisher=Globo.com|work=O Globo | access-date = 13 April 2017|title=Odebrecht: Aécio group received R$ 50 million for influence in the electric sector|author=Thiago Herdy|date=12 April 2017}}

Odebrecht also discussed family involvement. In eleven cases under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), investigations implicate father and son, husband and wife, or siblings. The president of the Chamber, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), has the most family members implicated. Maia was charged in the same investigation as his father, councilor and former mayor Cesar Maia. According to the Odebrecht testimony, Rodrigo obtained cash resources both for his father's campaign and also for himself. The Brazilian Democratic Movement leader of the Senate, Renan Calheiros (AL), was charged along with his son, the governor of Alagoas Renan Filho (PMDB), in two inquiries. They allegedly participated in an agreement to divert resources from work on the Canal do Sertão and also received resources in the form of a slush fund they refer to as a caixa 2. In the case of the father, two other inquiries are ongoing.{{Update inline|date=November 2019|reason=Update on the ongoing investigations}}

The governor of Rio Grande do Norte, Robinson Faria (PSD), was charged along with his son, federal deputy Fábio Faria (PSD-RN). The two allegedly received contributions through a slush fund in return for defending Odebrecht Ambiental's interests in the area of basic sanitation in the state. The president of the PMDB, Senator Romero Jucá (RR), and his son Rodrigo Jucá both figured in one of the inquiries. The father helped Odebrecht negotiate a provisional measure and obtained an electoral donation of 150,000 reals for his son. Romero Jucá was also charged in four other inquiries. A father asking for a contribution for a son was also why former minister José Dirceu was investigated along with Zeca Dirceu, federal deputy. The father was able to raise the money for Zeca in exchange for the acting for Odebrecht's interests in the government.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

In the Chamber of Deputies, the sons Antônio Britto (PSD-BA) and Daniel Vilela (PMDB-GO) were also investigated along with their parents, {{ill|Edvaldo Brito|pt}} (PTB-BA) and Maguito Vilela (PMDB-GO). Senator Kátia Abreu (PMDB-TO) was accompanied by her husband Moisés Pinto Gomes, who brokered cash payments for her in 2014. Senator Vanessa Grazziotin (PCdoB-AM) is accompanied by her husband, {{Interlanguage link|Eron Bezerra|pt}}, said to have asked for slush fund cash donations for her. Federal Deputy Décio Nery de Lima (PT-SC) also requested slush funds for the Blumenau municipal campaign in 2012 of his wife, state deputy Ana Paula Lima (PT-SC). The Viana brothers of Acre, Governor Tião Viana (PT) and Senator Jorge Viana (PT), were also charged together. Jorge asked for and Odebrecht paid R$1.5 million in cash two for Tião's campaign in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/audio-marcelo-odebrecht-diz-moro-que-conta-amigo-referente-lula-comecou-com-40-milhoes-21197659|work=O Globo online|date=13 April 2017 | access-date = 13 April 2017|title=Audio: Marcelo Odebrecht tells Moro that he tells 'Amigo', referring to Lula, started with $ 40 million}}

{{Further interlanguage link|List of people implicated in Operation Car Wash|pt|Lista de pessoas condenadas na Operação Lava Jato}}

The names of the senators cited in the report were:

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• Romero Jucá (PMDB-RR)
• Benedito de Lira (PP-AL)
• Delcídio do Amaral (PT-MS)
• Beto Richa (PSDB)
• Aécio Neves da Cunha (PSDB-MG)
• Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL)
• Fernando Bezerra Coelho (PMDB-PE)
• Paulo Rocha (PT-PA)
• Humberto Costa (PT-PE)
• Edison Lobão (PMDB-PA)
• Cássio Cunha Lima (PSDB-PB)
• Jorge Viana (PT-AC)
• Lídice da Mata (Brazilian Socialist Party) (PSB-BA)
• José Agripino Maia (DEM-RN)
• Marta Suplicy (PMDB-SP)
• Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI)
• Dalírio Beber Social Democrat (PSDB-SC)
• Ivo Cassol Progressistas (PP-RO)
• Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ)
• Vanessa Grazziotin Communist Party (PCdoB-AM)
• Kátia Abreu (PMDB-TO)
• Fernando Collor de Mello (PTC-AL)
• José Serra (PSDB-SP)
• Eduardo Braga (PMDB-AM)
• Omar Aziz (PSD-AM)
• Valdir Raupp (PMDB-RO)
• Eunício Oliveira (PMDB-CE)
• Eduardo Amorim (PSDB-SE)
• Maria do Carmo Alves (DEM-SE)
• Garibaldi Alves Filho (PMDB-RN)
• Ricardo Ferraço (PSDB-ES)
• Antônio Anastasia (PSDB-MG){{cite web|url=http://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2017/04/11/politica/1491943472_560268.html|work=El País|date=12 April 2017|access-date=24 June 2017|title=A lista de Fachin: veja quem será investigado pelo STFs |trans-title=Fachin's List: See Who Will Be Investigated by Supreme Courts }}

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The names of the federal deputies cited in the Odebrecht statement were:

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• {{ill|Dilceu Sperafico|pt}} (PP-PR)
• Cândido Vaccarezza (AVANTE-SP)
• {{ill|Carlos Magno Ramos|pt}} (PP-RO)
• {{ill|Cacá Leão|pt}} (PP-BA)
• Arthur Lira (PP-AL)
• Valdemar Costa Neto (PR)
• {{ill|Afonso Hamm|pt}} (PP-RS)
• Aguinaldo Ribeiro (PP-PB)
• {{ill|Aline Corrêa|pt}} (PP-SP)
• {{ill|André Luiz Vargas Ilário|pt}} (Independent-PR)
• {{ill|Aníbal Gomes|pt}} (PMDB-CE)
• Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RM)
• Paulinho da Força Solidarity (SD-SP)
• Marco Maia (PT-RS)
• {{ill|Carlos Zarattini|pt}} (PT-SP)
• {{ill|João Carlos Bacelar|pt}} (PSC-BA)
• {{ill|Milton Monti|pt}} (PR-SP)
• Daniel Almeida (PCdoB-BA)
• {{ill|Mário Negromonte Jr|pt}} (PP-BA)
• Nelson Pelegrino (PT-BA)
• Daniel Vilela (PMDB-GO)
• Jutahy Júnior (PSDB)
• {{ill|Felipe Maia (politician)|pt|Felipe Maia|lt=Felipe Maia}} (DEM-RN)
• Onyx Lorenzoni (DEM-RS)
• Pedro Paulo Teixeira (PMDB-RJ)
• Jarbas Vasconcelos (PMDB-PE)
• Celso Russomano (PRB-SP)
• {{ill|Dimas Toledo|pt|Dimas Fabiano Toledo Junior}} (PP-MG)
• Alfredo Nascimento Party of Republic (PR-AM)
• Antonio Brito (PTB-BA)
• Arlindo Chinaglia (PT-SC)
• {{ill|Heráclito Fortes|pt}} (PSB-PI)
• Zeca Dirceu (PT-PR)
• {{ill|Betinho Gomes|pt}} Social Democrats (PSDB-PE)
• Zeca do PT (PT-SP)
• Fábio Faria (PSD-MS)
• José Carneiro (PSB-MA)
• {{ill|Júlio Lopes|pt}} (PP-RJ)
• {{ill|Paulo Lustosa|pt}} (PMDB-CE)
• Rodrigo Garcia (DEM-SP)
• {{ill|Lúcio Vieira Lima|pt}} Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB-BA)
• {{ill|Vander Loubet|pt}} (PT-MS)
• {{ill|Vicente Cândido|pt}} (PT-SP)
• Yeda Crusius (PSDB-RS)

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The names in the Odebrecht statement include other politicians and former public officials:

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• Antonio Palocci (PT-SP)
• Eduardo Paes (PMDB) – Former mayor of Rio de Janeiro
• César Maia (DEM) – Former mayor of Rio de Janeiro
• Rosalba Ciarlini Rosado (PP) – former mayor of Mossoró, governor of Rio Grande do Norte.
• Guido Mantega (PT) – Former Finance Minister under Lula and Rousseff
• José Dirceu (PT) – Former Lula minister
• {{ill|Napoleão Bernardes|pt}} – Prefect of Blumenau for the PSDB
• Paulo Bernardo (PT) – Former Minister of Communication
• {{Interlanguage link|Luiz Maguito|pt|Luiz Alberto Maguito Vilela}} (PMDB) – Former senator and mayor
• Humberto Kasper – Former director of Trensurb in Rio Grande do Sul
• Marco Arildo Prates da Cunha – Former director of Trensurb
• Ana Paula Lima (PT)– Member
• Rodrigo Jucá (PMDB-AL) – Son of Senator Romero Jucá
• Oswaldo Borges da Costa – Businessman linked to Aécio Neves
• Vital do Rêgo Filho – minister of the Federal Court of Audits
• {{Interlanguage link|Eron Bezerra|pt}}, Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB) – Former state deputy for Amazonas
• Ulisses César Martins de Sousa – Lawyer and former attorney general of the State of Maranhão
• {{Interlanguage link|Edvaldo Pereira de Brito|pt}} (PTB) – Former mayor of Salvador, linked to Deputy Antonio de Brito
• José Ivaldo Gomes
• Vado da Farmárcia – Former Mayor of Cabo de Santo Agostinho PE{{cite web|url=http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/politica/2017-04-11/lava-jato.html|title=Lava Jato: lista de Fachin inclui nove ministros do governo de Temer |trans-title=Operation Car Wash: Fachin's list includes nine government ministers from Temer|first=iG São|last=Paulo|language=pt|date=4 November 2017|access-date=23 March 2018}}
• João Carlos Gonçalves Ribeiro – Former secretary of planning for the state of Rondônia, accused of taking a bribe in relationship to the Santo Antônio hydroelectric plant on the Madeira River{{cite web|url=https://g1.globo.com/ro/rondonia/noticia/delacoes-da-odebrecht-joao-carlos-goncalves-ribeiro-e-suspeito-de-receber-r-1-milhao-de-usina.ghtml|title=Delações da Odebrecht: João Carlos Gonçalves Ribeiro é suspeito de receber R$ 1 milhão de usina |trans-title=Odebrecht delegations: João Carlos Gonçalves Ribeiro Suspected of Receiving R$ 1 million Reals From Power Plant |publisher=Grupo Globo|language=pt|date=4 December 2017|access-date=23 March 2018}}
• José Feliciano de Barros Júnior.{{cite web|url=https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2017/04/11/politica/1491943472_560268.html|work=El País|date=12 April 2017|access-date=23 March 2018|title=A lista de Fachin: veja quem será investigado pelo STFs |trans-title=Fachin's list: see who will be investigated by STFs|language=pt}}{{cite web |url=https://g1.globo.com/pernambuco/noticia/delacao-da-odebrecht-ex-prefeito-do-cabo-vado-da-farmacia-e-vereador-jose-feliciano-sao-suspeitos-de-corrupcao.ghtml |title=Delação da Odebrecht: ex-prefeito do Cabo Vado da Farmácia e vereador José Feliciano são suspeitos de corrupção |trans-title=Odebrecht delegation: former Cape Vado Mayor of Pharmacy and councilman José Feliciano are suspected of corruption |date=12 April 2017 |access-date=21 September 2019}}

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{{Further|2014 Brazilian presidential election}}

Marcelo Odebrecht detailed the payment of 100 million reals for the 2014 presidential campaign of Rousseff, requested by then-minister Guido Mantega.Márcio Falcão and Livia Scocuglia (12 April 2017). «Negotiation of MP made Odebrecht donate$100 mi to Dilma» . JOTA . Retrieved on 14 April 2017 The payment was allegedly tied to the approval of Provisional Measure 613, which assisted Braskem, an arm of Odebrecht, and dealt with the Special Chemical Industry Regime (Reiq), and tax incentives to stimulate ethanol production.{{cite web|url=https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2013/05/09/9666915/brazilian-ethanol-sector-ponders-effects-of-stimulus-package/ | title=Brazilian ethanol sector ponders effects of stimulus package |author=Leela Landress | date=9 May 2013 |publisher=ICIS |access-date=16 September 2019}} The former executive said that this was not a direct exchange of favors as was, he says, the negotiation of the 50 million reals passed on to the government for the creation of Crisis Refis to solve the crisis caused by zero {{ill|Imposto sobre Produtos Industrializados|pt}} ("Industrialized Products Tax"; IPI),{{cite web|url=https://economia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2012/05/21/governo-zera-ipi-de-carro-10-e-da-mais-prazo-para-financiar.htm |title=Governo zera IPI de carro 1.0, reduz IOF do crédito e dá mais prazo para financiar – Notícias – UOL Economia |trans-title=Government Resets IPI 1.0 car, Reduces IOF Credit and Gives Better Financing Terms - News - UOL Economy |access-date=23 March 2018}} but that the then-minister knew that he was talking to someone who had given money to {{ill|João Santana|pt}}. The former executive said he often met Mantega and they both brought their lawsuits to meetings. According to him, the former minister had already asked the executive to "resolve issues" pending with publicist João Santana and the then-treasurer of the PT, {{ill|João Vaccari|pt}}. The advertiser always feared political campaigns because of the risk of getting into debt at the end. That's why he made advance payment on the account, to keep it quiet.«Executivos da Odebrecht dizem que políticos pediam propina em troca de aprovação de MPs» "Odebrecht executives say politicians asked for bribe in exchange for approval of MPs ." Globo online . 13 April 2017 . Retrieved on 13 April 2017

Former Odebrecht Institutional Relations Director {{Interlanguage link|Alexandrino Alencar|pt}} stated that former minister {{ill|Edinho Silva|pt}}, when he became treasurer of Dilma Rousseff's campaign in 2014, asked for two donations from five parties to support the Force of the People, at 7 million reals each.Júnia Gama. «Delator reports slush fund to five parties support Dilma in 2014» . The Globe . Globo.com . Retrieved on 14 April 2017 Delator relata caixa dois para cinco partidos apoiarem Dilma em 2014 The PCdoB, PDT, PRB, PROS, and PP received the illegal donations, according to the former director of Odebrecht. Together, these parties gave three minutes and twenty seconds of television time to the presidential ticket. In return, said the former director, the contractor hoped to obtain quid pro quos from the elected government. The informant detailed meetings with the politicians in his office and cash deliveries, always made in kind by messengers to hotel rooms or flats. Marcelo Odebrecht said he met with Silva a few times to handle the money for the parties that would join the coalition in 2014. The former Dilma minister allegedly instructed Alencar to directly seek party leaders to pass on the values. He clarified that the interest of the PT was the increase of the time of electoral time on the television, being in a total of eleven minutes and twenty-four seconds, being a third of that time coming from the parties purchased.«Delator reports slush fund to five parties support Dilma in 2014» . Oglobo online . 13 April 2017 . Retrieved on 13 April 2017. Delator relata caixa dois para cinco partidos apoiarem Dilma em 2014

{{Main|Offshoots of Operation Car Wash outside Brazil}}

During the many years it has been going on, the Car Wash scandal has expanded from its original roots in money laundering, to encompass wider corruption in Brazil, and outside its borders in at least ten other countries, even beyond South America.

{{Main|Paradise Papers}}

On 5 November 2017, the Paradise Papers, a set of confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that Odebrecht used at least one offshore company as a vehicle for paying the bribes uncovered through the Operation Car Wash investigation. Marcelo Odebrecht, his father Emílio Odebrecht and his brother Maurício Odebrecht are all mentioned in the Paradise Papers.{{cite news|last1=Delfino|first1=Emilia |title=Paradise Papers: Salen a la luz 17 offshore de Odebrecht y al menos una se usó para sobornos |trans-title=Seventeen Offshore Operations of Odebrecht Come to Light, and At Least One Was Used for Bribes |url=http://www.perfil.com/paradisepapers/paradise-papers-salen-a-la-luz-17-offshore-de-odebrecht-y-al-menos-una-se-uso-para-sobornos.phtml|access-date=9 November 2017|work=Perfil|date=8 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108203827/http://www.perfil.com/paradisepapers/paradise-papers-salen-a-la-luz-17-offshore-de-odebrecht-y-al-menos-una-se-uso-para-sobornos.phtml|archive-date=8 November 2017}}

During the governments of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner, Odebrecht was awarded overvalued contracts worth at least US$9.6 billion.[https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/07/14/latin-americas-new-media-are-growing-up "A freer press online: Latin America's new media are growing up", The Economist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118183047/https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2018/07/14/latin-americas-new-media-are-growing-up|date=18 January 2022}} 14 July 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2018.

In Mexico, the former director of the state-owned oil company Pemex, a close ally of President Enrique Peña Nieto, is suspected of receiving US$10 million in bribes from Odebrecht.Latinnews.com (September 2017) "Former Pemex director suspected of bribery", Mexico & NAFTA Regional Report. ISSN 1741-444X.

Ramón Fonseca Mora, president of Panama's Panameñista Party, was dismissed in March 2016 due to his involvement in the scandal.{{cite web|url=http://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/nacion/ministro-consejero-fonseca-mora-se-va-de-licencia-1017483 |trans-title=Minister-Counselor Fonseca Mora Dismissed |language=es|title=Ministro consejero Fonseca Mora se va de licencia |last=dayra2|date=11 March 2016|work=Panamá América|access-date=22 December 2016}} The Panama Papers resulted from a hack of his law firm's computer systems.

Fonseca and his business partner Jürgen Mossack were arrested and jailed in February 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/20170210-mossfon-panama-arrests/|title=Founders of Panama Papers Law Firm Arrested on Money Laundering Charges|website=icij.org|date=11 February 2017 |access-date=12 May 2019}} They were released in April 2017 after a judge ruled they had cooperated with the investigation and ordered them each to pay $500,000 in bail.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-corruption-idUSKBN17O018|title=Panama grants bail to Mossack Fonseca founders in Brazil corruption case|date=22 April 2017|work=Reuters|access-date=5 November 2019|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/detained-partners-of-law-firm-at-the-heart-of-panama-papers-scandal-granted-bail/a-38541750|title=Detained partners of law firm at the heart of Panama Papers scandal granted bail |website=DW.COM|language=en-GB|access-date=4 November 2019}}

During the Peruvian presidential election in February 2016, a report by the Brazilian Federal Police implicated President Ollanta Humala in bribery by Odebrecht for public works contracts. President Humala denied the charge and has avoided questions from the media on this matter.{{cite news|last1=Leahy|first1=Joe|title=Peru president rejects link to Petrobras scandal|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87349398-da88-11e5-9ba8-3abc1e7247e4.html#axzz42VcVN2wQ|access-date=24 February 2016|agency=Financial Times|publisher=FT.com}}{{cite web|last1=Post|first1=Colin|title=Peru: Ollanta Humala implicated in Brazil's Carwash scandal|url=http://perureports.com/2016/02/23/peru-ollanta-humala-implicated-in-brazils-carwash-scandal/|website=Peru reports|date=23 February 2016|access-date=23 February 2016}} In July 2017, Humala and his wife were arrested and held in pre-trial detention following investigations into his involvement in the Odebrecht scandal.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-peru-humala-20170714-story.html|title=Another former Peruvian president is sent to jail, this time as part of growing corruption scandal|first=Adriana Leon and Patrick J.|last=McDonnell|website=Los Angeles Times|date=14 July 2017|access-date=23 March 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-corruption-humala/perus-ex-presidents-humala-and-fujimori-old-foes-share-prison-idUSKBN1A0005|title=Peru's ex-presidents Humala and Fujimori, old foes, share prison|date=14 July 2017|work=Reuters|access-date=18 December 2017}} Investigations revealed that Brazilian president Lula da Silva pressured Odebrecht to pay millions of dollars toward Humala's presidential campaign.{{Cite news|url=https://elcomercio.pe/politica/claves-prision-preventiva-ollanta-humala-nadine-heredia-noticia-481704 |title=Las claves de la prisión preventiva contra Ollanta Humala y Nadine Heredia |trans-title=The keys to Preventive Detention Against Ollanta Humala and Nadine Heredia |author=Redacción EC|date=14 December 2017|work=El Comercio|access-date=18 December 2017|language=es-PE}}

In December 2017 Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski appeared before Congress to defend himself against impeachment over allegations of covering up illegal payments of $782,000 from Odebrecht to Kuczynski's company Westfield Group Capital Ltd. Keiko Fujimori, who had lost the 2016 presidential elections to Kuczynski by a margin of fewer than 50,000 votes, was championing impeachment; her party had already forced out five government ministers. Fujimori herself was later implicated in the Odebrecht scandal over alleged campaign contributions{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/perus-president-faces-corruption-charges-linked-brazil-scandal-171221130305541.html|title=Peru's Congress debates impeachment of President Kuczynski|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=21 December 2017|access-date=22 December 2017|author=Sanchez, Mariana|location=Lima}} and on 31 October 2018, a judge sent her to 36 months of pretrial detention.{{Cite web|url=https://andina.pe/ingles/noticia-peru-keiko-fujimori-ordered-to-preventive-prison-for-36-months-full-story-731413.aspx|title=Peru: Keiko Fujimori ordered to preventive prison for 36 months (Full Story)|date=31 October 2018|website=andina.pe}} Kuczynski resigned from the Presidency on 21 March 2018{{cite news|last1=Collyns|first1=Dan|title=Peru president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns amid corruption scandal|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/21/peru-president-pedro-pablo-kuczynski-resigns-amid-corruption-scandal|access-date=24 March 2018|work=The Guardian|date=22 March 2018}} and was sent to pretrial detention on 10 April 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2019/04/19/aprueban-36-meses-de-prision-preventiva-para-pedro-pablo-kuczynski/|title=Aprueban 36 meses de prisión preventiva para Pedro Pablo Kuczynski|date=19 April 2019|website=CNN|language=es-ES|access-date=11 September 2019}}

On 17 April 2019, Alan García, a former President of Peru who was also implicated in the scandal, died by suicide after shooting himself in the head while police attempted to arrest him.[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47965867 "Alan García: Peru's former president kills himself ahead of arrest", BBC, 17 April 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019.]

Former president Alejandro Toledo (2001–2006) was also implicated in the bribery scandal, and was arrested in Redwood City, California in July 2019 for allegedly taking bribes in connection with a highway construction contract.{{cite web| publisher=Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project |url=https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/10237-ex-peru-president-accused-of-corruption-arrested-in-california |title=Ex-Peru President Accused of Corruption Arrested in California |author=Maya Perry |date=18 July 2019}}

In late 2017, Euzenando Prazeres de Azevedo, president of Constructora Odebrecht in Venezuela, told investigators that Odebrecht had made $35 million in campaign contributions to Nicolas Maduro's 2013 presidential campaign in return for Odebrecht projects receiving priority in Venezuela,{{cite news|title=Ousted Venezuelan prosecutor leaks Odebrecht bribe video|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ousted-venezuelan-prosecutor-leaks-odebrecht-bribe-video/2017/10/12/32b6f4f8-af9f-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020140712/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/ousted-venezuelan-prosecutor-leaks-odebrecht-bribe-video/2017/10/12/32b6f4f8-af9f-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 October 2017|access-date=12 October 2017|newspaper=Washington Post|date=12 October 2017}} that Americo Mata, Maduro's campaign manager, initially asked for $50 million for Maduro, settled in the end for $35 million.{{cite news |title=Américo Mata habría recibido pagos de Odebrecht para campaña de Maduro {{!}} El Cooperante |trans-title=Américo Mata Alleged to Have received Payments from Odebrecht for Maduro's campaign {{!}} El Cooperante |url=https://elcooperante.com/americo-mata-el-chavista-que-habria-recibido-fondos-de-odebrecht-para-campana-presidencial-de-maduro/|access-date=13 October 2017|work=El Cooperante|date=25 August 2017|language=es-ES}} In May 2018, Transparency International showed that only 9 of 33 projects started by Odebrecht in Venezuela between 1999 and 2013 were completed.{{Cite news|url=https://www.lapatilla.com/site/2018/05/13/transparencia-internacional-odebrecht-completo-en-venezuela-solo-9-de-33-obras-contratadas-informe/ |title=Transparencia Internacional: Odebrecht completó en Venezuela sólo 9 de 33 obras contratadas (Informe) |trans-title=Odebrecht Only Finished 9 of 33 of Their Contracts in Venezuela (Report) |date=13 May 2018|work=La Patilla|access-date=16 May 2018}}

One of Singapore's prominent government-linked companies, Keppel Corporation, is also implicated in the Petrobras' corruption scandals.{{cite web | url=https://fcpablog.com/2018/01/02/at-keppel-it-wasnt-a-rogue-employee-it-was-widespread-corrup/ | title=At Keppel, it wasn't a rogue employee. It was widespread corruption | the FCPA Blog | date=2 January 2018 }} Information of involvement is confirmed in the plea bargain Keppel Corporation reached with US DOJ. Keppel and US DOJ however failed to release the names of all people involved in this corruption scandal. Details are available on the US DOJ site here.{{cite web | url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/keppel-offshore-marine-ltd-and-us-based-subsidiary-agree-pay-422-million-global-penalties | title=Keppel Offshore & Marine LTD. And U.S. Based Subsidiary Agree to Pay $422 Million in Global Penalties to Resolve Foreign Bribery Case | date=22 December 2017 }}

{{main|Vaza Jato}}

{{Vaza Jato |expanded=all}}

On 9 June 2019, Glenn Greenwald and other journalists from investigative journalism magazine The Intercept Brasil started publishing several leaked chat messages exchanged via the Telegram app between members of the Brazilian judiciary system. Some, including then Car Wash judge and former Minister of Justice Sergio Moro and lead prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol are accused of violating legal procedure during the investigation, trial and arrest of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva allegedly for the sake of preventing him from running for a third term in the 2018 Brazilian general election, among other crimes. Other news agencies, such as Folha de São Paulo and Veja, confirmed the authenticity of the messages and worked in partnership with The Intercept Brasil to sort the rest of the material in their possession before releasing it.{{Cite web|language=fr|title=Brésil: des magistrats auraient conspiré pour empêcher le retour de Lula|trans-title=Brazil: Magistrates Alleged to have Conspired to Prevent Lula's Return|url=https://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2019/06/10/bresil-des-magistrats-auraient-conspire-pour-empecher-le-retour-de-lula_1732745|publisher=AFP / Libération|date=10 June 2019|access-date=10 June 2019|archive-date=10 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610132321/https://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2019/06/10/bresil-des-magistrats-auraient-conspire-pour-empecher-le-retour-de-lula_1732745|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|language=fr|title=Brésil: Les enquêteurs anticorruption auraient conspiré pour empêcher le retour au pouvoir de Lula |trans-title=Brazil: Anti-Corruption Investigators Conspired to Prevent Lula's Return to Power |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/2536843-20190610-bresil-enqueteurs-anticorruption-conspire-empecher-retour-pouvoir-lula|publisher=20 Minutes|date=10 June 2019|access-date=10 June 2019}}{{cite web | url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/brazil-lula-convicted-2018-election-report-190610055731589.html | title=Brazil News: Brazil's Lula convicted to keep him from 2018 election: Report | publisher=Al Jazeera | date=10 June 2019 | access-date=11 June 2019}}{{Cite web |url=https://theintercept.com/series/secret-brazil-archive/ |title=Secret Brazil Archive — An Investigative Series by The Intercept |website=The Intercept |language=en |access-date=10 June 2019}}{{cite web | url=https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-car-wash-prosecutors-workers-party-lula/ | title=HIDDEN PLOT Exclusive: Brazil's Top Prosecutors Who Indicted Lula Schemed in Secret Messages to Prevent His Party From Winning 2018 Election| publisher=The Intercept | date=9 June 2019 | access-date=16 June 2019}}{{cite web | url=https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/dallagnol-duvidas-triplex-lula-telegram-petrobras/ |title='ATÉ AGORA TENHO RECEIO' Exclusivo: Deltan Dallagnol duvidava das provas contra Lula e de propina da Petrobras horas antes da denúncia do triplex |trans-title='Up Till Now, I've Been Afraid' Exclusive: Deltan Dallagnol doubted Petrobas Kickback Evidence Against Lula Horas Hours Before the Apartment Accusation |language=pt| publisher=The Intercept | date=9 June 2019 | access-date=16 June 2019}}{{cite web | url=https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-lula-operation-car-wash-sergio-moro/ | title=BREACH OF ETHICS Exclusive: Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence| publisher=The Intercep | date=9 June 2019 | access-date=16 June 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://revistaforum.com.br/politica/vaza-jato/veja-faz-parceria-com-the-intercept-e-folha-para-divulgar-conteudo-da-vaza-jato/ |date=27 June 2019 |title=Veja faz parceria com The Intercept e Folha para divulgar conteúdo da Vaza Jato |trans-title=Veja partners with The Intercept and Folha to Disseminate Content of Car Wash Leaks |publisher=Revista Fórum |access-date=13 August 2019 |archive-date=2 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802160058/https://revistaforum.com.br/politica/vaza-jato/veja-faz-parceria-com-the-intercept-e-folha-para-divulgar-conteudo-da-vaza-jato/ |url-status=dead }}

On 23 July, Brazilian Federal Police made public that they had arrested and were investigating a hacker from Araraquara, Walter Delgatti Neto, for breaking into the authorities' Telegram accounts. Neto confessed to the hack and to having given the chat logs to Greenwald. Police said the attack had been perpetrated by abusing Telegram's phone number verification and exploiting vulnerabilities in voicemail technology in use in Brazil using a spoofed phone number. The Intercept neither confirmed nor denied that Neto was their source and cited provisions for freedom of the press in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.{{cite web |title=Entenda o vazamento de diálogos da Lava-Jato |trans-title=Understand the Operation Car Wash Leaked Document Dialogs |url=https://www.nsctotal.com.br/noticias/entenda-o-vazamento-de-dialogos-da-lava-jato |website=www.nsctotal.com.br |publisher=NSCTotal |access-date=13 August 2019 |language=pt-BR}}

Greenwald has faced death threats and homophobic harassment from supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro due to his reporting on the Telegram messages.{{cite news |title=Glenn Greenwald becomes focus of Brazil press freedom debate |url=https://www.apnews.com/0e998ebedbd64f6d868a3fa570ed1f6c |agency=The Associated Press (AP) |date=12 July 2019}} A New York Times profile of Greenwald and his husband David Miranda, a left-wing congressman, said the couple have become targets of homophobia from Bolsonaro supporters as a result of the reporting.{{cite news |title="The Antithesis of Bolsonaro": A Gay Couple Roils Brazil's Far Right |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/world/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-greenwald.html |work=The New York Times) |date=20 July 2019}} The Washington Post reported that Greenwald had been targeted with tax investigations by the Bolsonaro government as retaliation for the reporting,{{cite news |title=Glenn Greenwald has faced pushback for his reporting before. But not like this. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/glenn-greenwald-has-faced-pushback-for-his-reporting-before-but-not-like-this/2019/07/11/9a7f3590-a1b1-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html |agency=The Washington Post) |date=13 July 2019}} while AP called Greenwald's reporting the first test case for a free press in the Bolsonaro era.{{cite news |title=Glenn Greenwald becomes focus of Brazil press freedom debate |url=https://apnews.com/0e998ebedbd64f6d868a3fa570ed1f6c |agency=Associated Press (AP)) |date=12 July 2019}}

The Guardian, reporting on retaliation against Greenwald from the Bolsonaro government and its supporters, said the articles published by Greenwald and The Intercept "have had an explosive impact on Brazilian politics and dominated headlines for weeks," adding that the exposés "appeared to show prosecutors in the sweeping Operation Car Wash corruption inquiry colluding with Sergio Moro, the judge who became a hero in Brazil for jailing powerful businessmen, middlemen and politicians."{{cite news |title=Outcry after reports Brazil plans to investigate Glenn Greenwald|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/03/brazil-glenn-greenwald-investigation-outcry-bar-association-journalists |work=The Guardian |date=3 July 2019}}

After Bolsonaro explicitly threatened to imprison Greenwald for this reporting,{{cite news |title=Glenn Greenwald becomes focus of Brazil press freedom debate |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3020373/brazils-president-raises-possibility-jail-intercept-founder |agency=The Associated Press (AP) |date=12 July 2019}} Supreme Court justice Gilmar Mendes ruled that any investigation of Greenwald in connection with the reporting would be illegal under the Brazilian constitution, calling freedom of the press a "pillar of democracy".{{cite news |title=Brazil Top Court Prevents Investigation Into US Journalist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/08/09/world/americas/ap-lt-brazil-greenwald-press-freedom.html |work=The New York Times |date=9 August 2019}}

Greenwald reported that the leaked file is bigger than the one in the Snowden case.{{Cite web |url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2019/06/10/moro-atuou-quase-como-procurador-nao-como-juiz-diz-autor-de-reportagens.htm |title=Material ainda não revelado reforça interferência de Moro, diz Greenwald |trans-title=Undisclosed Material Reinforces Moro Interference, says Greenwald |website=noticias.uol.com.br |language=pt-br |access-date=2019-06-10}} Fernando Haddad considered the leaks to have the potential to become the "greatest institutional scandal in the history of the Brazilian republic".{{Cite tweet |number=1137844288337973250 |user=Haddad_Fernando |title=Podemos estar diante do maior escândalo institucional da história da República. Muitos seriam presos, processos teriam que ser anulados e uma grande farsa seria revelada ao mundo. Vamos acompanhar com toda cautela, mas não podemos nos deter. Que se apure toda a verdade! |language=pt-br |trans-title=We could be facing the greatest institutional scandal in the history of the Republic. Many could be arrested, processes could be nullified and a great farce could be revealed to the world. We will follow with caution, but we can not stop. Let the truth come true! |author=Fernando Haddad |date=9 Jun 2019}}

In response to the leaks, several top jurisprudence authorities and experts in Europe and the Americas, such as Susan Rose-Ackerman (praised by Car Wash prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol as the world's top corruption expert), Bruce Ackerman, and Luigi Ferrajoli, voiced their shock at the conduct of the Brazilian authorities and described former President Lula as a political prisoner, calling for his release.{{cite web|url=https://www.cartacapital.com.br/justica/jurista-americana-admirada-por-dallagnol-defende-libertacao-de-lula/|title=Jurista americana admirada por Dallagnol defende libertação de Lula |trans-title=American lawyer Admired by Dallagnol Advocates for Lula's Release |website=Carta Capital|date=12 August 2019 |quote=Jurist Susan Rose-Ackerman, Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University, expressed support for the release of former President Lula, who has been imprisoned since April 2018 for his role in Operation Car Wash. The American, who is considered one of the world's leading anti-corruption experts, has signed a letter along with 16 other jurists calling for the Supreme Court to release the former president and set aside the verdict.
One oddity: Susan Rose-Ackerman was previously praised by prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol, the coordinator of Car Wash investigations. The head of the task force in Curitiba had already recommended that the jurist be interviewed, introducing the professor in social networks as 'the world's biggest expert in political corruption'.
Susan and the other lawyers, all from international universities, say the revelations in the messages exchanged between Dallagnol and Sérgio Moro, who was responsible for the charges against Lula, 'were appalling to all legal professionals.'{{thin space}}}}{{cite news |first=Mônica |last=Bergamo |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2019/08/juristas-estrangeiros-se-dizem-chocados-e-defendem-libertacao-de-lula.shtml|website=Folha de São Paulo|date=11 August 2019|title=Juristas estrangeiros se dizem chocados e defendem libertação de Lula |trans-title=Foreign jurists shocked, and call for Lula's release}}

In March 2020, the Intercept reported that Brazilian prosecutors had secretly collaborated with the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation in a manner "that may have violated international legal treaties and Brazilian law". The Brazilian Ministry of Justice had not been informed; making this collaboration illegal. They also found that money paid by Brazilian companies in the US was funnelled back into Brazil; chief prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol said he would use part of this sum to set up an "independent fund to fight corruption".{{cite news |title=Keep it confidential |last1=Fishman |first1=Andrew |last2=Viana |first2=Natalia |last3=Saleh |first3=Maryam |url=https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/united-states-justice-department-brazil-car-wash-lava-jato-international-treaty/ |agency=The Intercept |date=12 March 2020|access-date= 3 April 2021}}{{cite news |title=How The FBI "Toppled Presidents" In Brazil |url=https://www.brasilwire.com/how-fbi-controlled-operation-toppled-presidents/ |agency=Brasil Wire |date=10 July 2020|access-date= 3 April 2021}} This attempt was then deemed unconstitutional by Brazil's Supreme Court.{{cite news |title=STF suspende acordo que criaria fundo bilionário da Lava-Jato |last1=Muniz |first1=Mariana |last2=Martins |first2=Luísa |last3=Peron |first3=Isadora |url=https://valor.globo.com/politica/noticia/2019/03/15/stf-suspende-acordo-que-criaria-fundo-bilionario-da-lava-jato.ghtml |agency=Valor |date=15 March 2020|place=Brasilia |access-date= 3 April 2021}} It was reported that Mr. Dallagnol had called Lula da Silva's arrest "a gift from the CIA".{{cite news |date=19 February 2021 |title=Lava Jato: The CIA's Poisoned Gift to Brazil |agency=The Wire |url=https://thewire.in/world/lula-de-silva-brazil-cia |access-date=3 April 2021}}{{Cite web |date=9 February 2021 |title=Lula's arrest is "a gift from the CIA", mocked Lava Jato prosecutor |url=https://www.brasilwire.com/lula-arrest-is-a-gift-from-the-cia-mocked-lava-jato-prosecutor/ |website=Brasil Wire}} Leslie Backschies, the head of the US FBI's international corruption unit, alluded to this incident when discussing the sensitivity of anti-corruption investigations in a 2019 interview with AP news, saying "We saw presidents toppled in Brazil".{{cite news |last1=Balsamo |first1=Michael |last2=Tucker |first2=Eric |title=FBI adds an anti-bribery squad focusing on South America |url=https://apnews.com/article/north-america-ap-top-news-south-america-international-news-politics-9eaa9b8a1205450f96147dfda9a41af6 |access-date=24 January 2023 |work=AP NEWS |agency=Associated Press |date=March 2019 |language=en}}

As of September 2020, there were fears that political forces were about to bring an end to Operation Car Wash, according to prosecutors in Brazil. Chief prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol said, "Today there is a very strong alignment of political forces against the Operation Car Wash investigation. Much more than [just] an operation, the Brazilian effort against corruption itself is at risk." One of the reasons Jair Bolsonaro was elected president in 2018, was because of his promises to attack corruption, but since he and his family members became embroiled, he has cooled on it. Bolsonaro's attorney general Augusto Aras complained that the investigations went too far, and were biased politically, and campaigned against it, gaining support from Bolsonaro family members such as their son Flavio who was caught up in it. Dallagnol claimed that the slowdown and efforts to stop the investigations were because the investigations were getting close to revealing corruption at the highest levels. Other branches of government also oppose the investigations, including Congress and the Supreme Court, which have been targets, as well as political parties. Analysts see a concerted effort to back down from aggressive anti-corruption efforts in Brazil.{{cite web |language=en |last1=Harris |first1=Bryan |title=Investigators fear the end is near for Brazil's Lava Jato probe |location=Sao Paulo|url=https://app.ft.com/content/8f79871f-9dc4-4a97-9b26-79a7a9c2bf32?sectionid=world |date=16 August 2020 |website=Financial Times |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 September 2020}}

There are two dramatizations of Operation Car Wash. One is the 2017 film Polícia Federal: A Lei É para Todos (Federal Police: The Law Is for Everyone), directed by Marcelo Antunez (2017), and the other is the Netflix series The Mechanism.

• Brazilian Anti-Corruption Act
• Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff
• Impeachment proposals against Michel Temer
• List of scandals in Brazil
• Mani pulite, Italian judicial investigation into political corruption
• Odebrecht–Car Wash leniency agreement
• Odebrecht Case
• Offshoots of Operation Car Wash
• Offshoots of Operation Car Wash outside Brazil
• Phases of Operation Car Wash
• Vaza Jato ("Car Wash Leaks")

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{{efn |name=bribery-dept"|{{lang|pt|Setor de propina}}{{snd}}lit., "bribery section", or "bribery department". This is a slang term or nickname for Odebrecht S.A.'s Structured Operations Division ({{lang|pt|Setor de Operações Estruturais}}), because it was that department within the company that was responsible for managing and paying kickbacks and bribes.{{cite web |language=pt |last1=Esposito |first1=Ivan Richard |last2=Pordeus León |first2=Lucas |title=Setor de propinas da Odebrecht pagou R$ 10,6 bilhões entre 2006 e 2014 |trans-title=Odebrecht's bribery department paid R$ 10.6 billion between 2006 and 2014 |url=http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/politica/noticia/2017-04/setor-de-propinas-da-odebrecht-pagou-r-106-bilhoes-entre-2006-e-2014 |date=15 April 2017 |website=Agência Brasil |publisher=EBC |access-date=2019-02-11 |quote=The former director of the so-called bribery department said that any executive responsible for an Odebrecht project could request the funds to get the project going. O ex-diretor do chamado setor de propinas disse que cada executivo responsável por obras da Odebrecht podia solicitar o recurso para fazer as obras andarem.}}{{cite web |language=pt |author=Folha Política |title=E-mails mostram que Marcelo Odebrecht controlava o 'setor de propinas' |trans-title=E-mails show that Marcelo Odebrecht controlled the 'bribery department' |url=https://folhapolitica.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/380783849/e-mails-mostram-que-marcelo-odebrecht-controlava-o-setor-de-propinas |date=5 September 2016 |website=JusBrasil |access-date=2019-02-11 |quote=E-mails seized by Operation Car Wash at the Odebrecht Group headquarters in June 2015 reinforced the evidentiary exhibits showing the participation of the outgoing president of Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht with the Structured Operations Division - a department that took care of the contractor's kickbacks and slush fund payments, in the corruption scheme discovered at Petrobras. E-mails apreendidos pela Operação Lava Jato na sede do Grupo Odebrecht, em junho de 2015, reforçaram o rol de provas da participação do presidente afastado do Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht com o Setor de Operações Estruturadas - departamento que cuidava dos pagamentos de propina e caixa 2 da empreiteira, no esquema de corrupção descoberto na Petrobrás.}}{{cite book |language=pt |last1=Oro Boff |first1=Salete |last2=Borges Fortes |first2=Vinícius |last3=Zanatta Tocchetto |first3=Gabriel |title=Propriedade intelectual e gestão da inovação: entre invenção e inovação |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QNlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA284 |access-date=11 February 2020 |date=16 July 2018 |publisher=Editora Deviant |location=Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul |isbn=978-85-532-4014-2 |page=284 |chapter=XIII Proteção de Dados e Práticas de Corrupção: Uma Analise do Sistema de ERP no Caso de Odebrecht [Data Protection and the Practice of Corruption: a Systems Analysis of ERP in the Odebrecht Case] |quote=Only the employees of the Structured Operations Division, also called the Bribery Division by the media, ...Apenas os funcionários do Setor de Operações Estruturais, também chamado de Setor de Propinas, pela mídia, ...}}{{cite web |language=pt |title=Odebrecht adquiriu banco para propina, diz delator |trans-title=Odebrecht acquired a bank for kickbacks, says informer |author= |url=https://noticias.uol.com.br/ultimas-noticias/agencia-estado/2016/06/20/odebrecht-adquiriu-banco-para-propina-diz-delator.htm |date=2016-06-20 |website=UOL |quote=The Department of Structured Operations – official name of the bribery center of the company, according to Operation Car Wash. [O] Departamento de Operações Estruturadas --nome oficial da central de propinas da empreiteira, segundo a Lava Jato...}} There isn't sufficient usage in English sources to have settled on one term for it, but "bribery department" is present in a BBC report.{{cite web |last1=Pressly |first1=Linda |title=The largest foreign bribery case in history |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43825294 |date=22 April 2018 |website=BBC News |access-date=2019-02-11 |quote=The company's bribery department, known by the rather prosaic name of Division of Structured Operations, managed its own shadow budget.}}}}

{{efn |name="Col-prem" |Colaboração premiada{{snd}} literally, "rewarded collaboration"; the common name for the legal process known as {{lang|pt|delação premiada}}.}}

{{efn |name="Del-prem" |{{lang|pt|Delação premiada}}{{snd}}"rewarded whistleblowing" (or, "informing"). A legal process by which a suspect is offered a specific reduced sentence prescribed by law, in return for turning in accomplices, or aiding in investigations. The common name for it in Brazil is Colaboração premiada ("rewarded collaboration"). The concept is similar to a plea bargain, in return for investigative assistance.}}

{{efn|name="Reals"|{{lang|pt|Reals}}: A real is the Brazilian unit of currency. The plural form in Portuguese is reais, following the standard orthographic rules for pluralization of Portuguese nouns ending in -al. The plural in English is reals or reais.}}

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