Gebruiker:Ief O/Kladblok

As stated in the lead, the Car Wash scandal begun as an money laundering investigation but it grew out to be the biggest corruption scandal in Latin-America. The investigation was at first mainly focused on four black-market currency dealers. After it was found out that one of those black-market currency dealers Alberto Youssef acquired a Range Rover Evoque for Paulo Roberto Costa who was the former director of Petrobas, the investigation expanded to a national scandal in Brazil. Mr. Costa agreed at the end to provide evidence for the investigation about what he experienced as former director(1). This was mostly because of the newly adapted law, that introduced 'Rewarded Collaboration' in Brazil, which reduced sentence when the defendant collaborated. Mr. Costa collaboration illuminated the way political parties control the state-oil company Petrobas. It also led to a wave of arrests, from Mr. Costa agreeing to help in 2014 until February 2016 the Federal Prosecution Service formulated 37 criminal charges against 179 people.

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