Mar 7th 2024|são paulo Share On january 31st José Dias Toffoli, a judge on Brazil’s Supreme Court, suspended the payment of a $2.6bn fine by Novonor, a construction firm better known by its former name, Odebrecht. The previous month he had suspended another fine imposed on j&f, which owns the world’s biggest meatpacking company, jbs. The companies had agreed to the fines as part of leniency agreements in which their executives admitted to bribing Brazilian officials. Mr Toffoli ruled that there was reasonable doubt about whether the agreements were signed voluntarily, and argued that the judge who administered the fines may have colluded with prosecutors. The fines came after a series of Brazilian corruption investigations, the most famous of which, known as Lava Jato (Car Wash), started ten years ago this month. It was part of a wave of anti-corruption activity which swept Latin America in the 2010s. But Mr Toffoli’s decisions correspond with a new worsening of perceptions of corruption across the region. Brazil fell ten places in an annual index of perceived corruption released by Transparency International, a charity, in January. Peru fell 20 places, putting it among the countries perceived to be the most corrupt in the world. Most Latin American countries scored worse than their levels of development suggest they should (see chart 1).
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Fernando_Silva
2024-Março-11
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Alguma vez, alguma época não foi assim?
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ufka Cabecao
2024-Março-11
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Fernando_Silva
Alguma vez, alguma época não foi assim?
Sim quando o PT estava fora do poder não era assim. Por isso trouxeram o PT de volta.
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Fernando_Silva
2024-Março-12
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ufka Cabecao
Sim quando o PT estava fora do poder não era assim. Por isso trouxeram o PT de volta.