Region: Brazil

Otávio Yazbek, who led construction company Odebrecht’s bribery-related monitorship in Brazil, will oversee an internal investigation into one of the country’s largest retailers after it disclosed a near four-billion-dollar gap in its balance sheet.

16 January 2023

A Brazilian infrastructure company wants the country’s anti-corruption agencies to reconsider their decision to throw out a bribery settlement they reached with the business in 2017.

13 January 2023

Singapore's anti-corruption agency has announced charging decisions following investigations into former executives at two subsidiaries of infrastructure company Keppel Corporation.

12 January 2023

In the latest counsel watch, GIR looks at the white-collar lawyers acting for cryptocurrency company Binance, and those involved in recent cross-border bribery settlements and the US case against crypto company FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried.

05 January 2023

A very Happy New Year from all of us at Global Investigations Review. Catch up on the news you may have missed over the holidays, including an OFAC settlement, a VimpelCom-linked fine imposed on EY in the Netherlands, and another end-of-year leniency agreement in Brazil.

03 January 2023

The Singaporean engineering company has agreed to pay $65 million to the two Brazilian agencies on top of the $422 million it agreed in 2017 to pay various authorities over the same allegations.

20 December 2022

UK prosecutors have accused the former CEO of Austrian lender Meinl Bank of a “thinly veiled attempt” to fight the substance of his US money laundering charges in a UK court.

17 November 2022

The former CEO of Austrian lender Meinl Bank claimed US prosecutors have given a “fundamentally false and misleading account” of their case against him in an effort to secure his extradition from the UK.

16 November 2022

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Brazilian prosecutors have stopped cooperating with their Peruvian counterparts on a high-profile corruption case over concerns about Peru’s use of evidence against a Brazilian construction company.

09 November 2022

A senior US foreign bribery prosecutor has said the exemplary cooperation with Brazilian anti-corruption authorities provides a model for other countries wishing to collaborate with the Justice Department.

26 October 2022