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07-16-2018
This will allow Argentine courts to use the winning statements and leniency agreements signed in Brazil as part of Lava Jato. "This is a big step forward in the relationship between international legal cooperation between the two countries and a big step forward in the fight against corruption," they said.
The Attorneys General of Argentina and Brazil formalized this Tuesday a agreement judicial cooperation for to share the use of related evidence with the case of corruption discovered by the operation Lava Jato and in which the construction company was involved Odebrecht according to official sources .
The Pact will allow Argentine courts to use the Arbitral Awards and Clemency Agreements signed in Brazil in the Lava Jato, who uncovered the country's biggest corruption scandal. and involved Odebrecht and other large construction companies, said in a statement the Brazilian Prosecutor
"Several cases concerning the Odebrecht company are being processed in Argentina and, with information [19] 459007] and evidence provided by Brazil it will be possible for the first time, to accuse ex-officio involved in irregularities "said the entity in the note
The signature of the document occurred on Friday and results from negotiations ] which intensified during the last month .
The body indicated that "Argentina se resisted to grant immunity to informants in exchange for information ] but this point was exceeded thanks to the negotiations of the Secretariat of International Cooperation (ICS) of the Federal Public Ministry "of Brazil . Cristina Romanó who is in charge of the SCI said in a note that the agreement means a huge breakthrough in the relationship of cooperation international legal between two countries and a great step more in the fight against corruption . "
" After a long negotiation negotiation between the SCI and the Argentine authorities, we reach an agreement for the denunciation relating to corruption in ] are available for fiscal of this country ", Romano completed in a note sent to the press by the Federal Public Ministry of Brazil
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Odebrecht played with others fifteen Brazilian builders on the largest scandal of corruption in the history of the country at participate in a network which diverted, through fraudulent offers and inflated contracts, millionaire funds of the company Petrobras National Oil Company.
In Brazil, the as led to prison important businessmen and politicians, including former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has served since April after a sentence of 12 years and 1 month for pbadive bribery and money laundering
However, corruption in Odebrecht did not occur. is not limited to Brazil and was extended by ten other countries of Latin America and Africa whose authorities investigate the payment of bribes to their politicians on behalf of the builder . The Brazilian Prosecutor's Office has already signed similar agreements [1 9459007] with Switzerland Norway and The Netherlands and suspended of the same nature as the Peruvian authorities also in the case Odebrecht after a claim made by the group's lawyers.
At the same time, Odebrecht also concluded Collaboration Agreements with the Justice at Brazil United States Switzerland Republic Dominican Panama Guatemala ] and Ecuador in which, in addition to paying millionaire fines he admitted to having committed irregularities and promised not to repeat them.
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