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Marcelo Odebrecht 2018

Businessman Marcelo Odebrecht has been fully released from jail in Brazil Friday after serving his sentence for corruption, illicit association, and money laundering that went public in the Operation Lava Jato scandal. He had been doing community work at a hospital in exchange for a sentence reduction.

Odebrecht, who was initially sentenced to 19 years and 4 months in prison by then-Judge Sergio Moro in 2016, spent the last two years working in the administrative sector of the Hospital de Clínicas in the city of São Paulo. As he made a plea bargain, Moro reduced his sentence to ten years. And last year, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) reduced the term to seven years, now served.

The Lava Jato investigation uncovered a network of overpricing and bribes paid by construction companies in exchange for contracts to several Petrobras officials and employees, money that was also used to finance political party campaigns.

In addition to Odebrecht, other 57 executives of the firm adhered to the plea bargain to reduce sentences. Many of them, such as Alexandrino Alencar, denounced that they were pressured by the prosecution to involve President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in their testimony.

Antonio Palocci confirmou em sua delação que ex-presidente Lula sabia que os R$ 4 milhões doados por Marcelo Odebrecht ao Instituto Lula, entre 2013 e 2014, seriam retirados da conta-corrente de propinas da construtora para o Partido dos Trabalhadores. A informação é do site Antagonista.

Na nova denúncia contra o ex-presidente, apresentada pela Lava Jato, a força-tarefa apresenta um e-mail de…