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The bribing Brazilians

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Kerstin Schweizer
December 22, 2016

The large Brazilian construction company Odebrecht bribed politicians around the world for years in order to win government contracts. It's one of history's largest corruption scandals - and it's going to cost the company a lot of money. On Wednesday, Oderbrecht pleaded guilty and received a financial penalty of $3.5 million.

The Brazilian company even had its own bribery department. It used dummy corporations and offshore accounts to pay almost a billion dollars in bribes to goverment offices around the world. 

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