The amount will be repaid to the Union over 22 years, reaching R $ 6.8 billion at the end of the term, after readjustments. Multa refers to the company's involvement in the diversion of resources investigated in Lava Jato The federal government signed a leniency agreement with Odebrecht on Monday (09/07), due to the company's participation in misappropriation of public resources being investigated Lava Jato
A Brazilian entrepreneur is involved in a corruption scandal that hit a number of countries
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The agreement is confidential and provides for the receipt of 2.7 billion reais by the federal government, which will be paid by the contractor for 22 years. The values will be adjusted by the Selic rate and could reach 6.8 billion reais at the end of the term, according to government estimates.
The first installment – $ 60 million reais – was paid this week. According to the Attorney General of the Republic (AGU) and the Ministry of Transparency and the Office of the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), this amount should increase to 159 million per year by 2039. [19659006] divided into several entities, including Petrobras, Infraero, Valec, Trensurb and the FGTS.
In order to establish the amount to be paid, 49 contracts Odebrecht involving power the public. The agreement only concerns contracts involving the federal sphere – states and municipalities affected by wrongful acts of the company have not entered into the agreement.
The agreement relates only to contracts involving the federal sphere – states and municipalities affected by unlawful acts of the corporation
Of the total to be paid, about 900 million reais correspond to the bribe paid by Odebrecht to 150 public officials, between officials and politicians. In addition, R $ 1.3 billion refers to the profit obtained in contracts signed by bribery, and R $ 442 million as a fine.
According to Odebrecht, the agreement "serves the public interest by allowing the preservation of the business"
The Attorney General of the Union, Grace Mendonca, said that 39 under the leniency agreement, the proceedings brought by AGU against Odebrecht will be extinguished, but investigations relating to other companies involved in the same schemes should continue
"Actions for the same facts included in the Leniency agreement are on the way out. There will be a finalization of the legal proceedings and the extinction of the limitation of the participation of the company ", explains Mendonça
The main target of Lava Jato, the public company Petrobras, which had blocked Odebrecht, has again included the entrepreneur in his register In December 2016, Odebrecht had already signed an agreement for the payment of about 3.8 billion reais, which would be transmitted not only to Brazil, but also to state authorities United States and Brazil. Switzerland The AGU and the UGT did not participate in the negotiations.
According to the AGU, the amount that Brazil would incur in the first agreement would be equivalent to the amount currently agreed with the federal government – R $ 2.7 billion.
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