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Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato) is an ongoing criminal investigation being carried out by the Federal Police of Brazil, Curitiba Branch, and judicially commanded by Judge Sérgio Moro since March 17, 2014.
Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato) | |
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(L–R, top to bottom:) Headquarters of Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro; Emblem of the Federal Police of Brazil; Judge Sérgio Moro; Deltan Dallagnol with Rodrigo Janot; Federal Police in an operation; Odebrecht logo | |
Country: | Brazil |
Since: | March 17, 2014 |
Judge: | Sérgio Moro |
Number of arrested people: | 160[1][2][dead link] |
Number of indicted people: | 179[2] |
Number of convicted people: | 93[2] |
Number of companies involved: | 16[3] |
Number of investigated people: | 232[2] |
Reimbursement request: | R$38.1 billion[2] (c. US$11.3 billion) |
Amount of misappropriated funds: | R$3.6 billion[2] (c. US$1 billion) |
Last updated: December 2016. |
Operation Car Wash refers to the 2014 investigation into Brazilian political corruption. The investigation began as a money laundering investigation and became the biggest corruption scandal in Latin America. The investigation led to the indictment of dozens of high-level politicians, and businessmen. The investigation has since expanded to cover allegations of corruption at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras, where executives allegedly accepted bribes in return for awarding contracts to construction firms at inflated prices. This criminal "system" is known as "Petrolão—Operation Car Wash".[4] The operation has included more than one thousand warrants for search and seizure, temporary and preventive detention and coercive measures, with the aim of ascertaining the extent of a money laundering scheme suspected of moving more than R$30 billion (c. US$9.5 billion as of July 23, 2017).[5]