Tag: Andrade Gutierrez SA

• Tuesday, May 10th 2016 - 18:31 UTC

  Apologizes to the Brazilian people, and pledges to return US$ 280 million from a major construction contractor

  

  Andrade Gutierrez, the second largest public works contractor in Brazil is to make public an “apology to the Brazilian people” for the illegal actions in the public construction contracts investigated by the Brazilian Federal Police's Lava Jato operation, reports Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2016 - 05:35 UTC

  Brazilian company admits, in plea bargain, illegal payments to Rousseff presidential campaign

  

  Executives from Brazil's second-largest engineering company, Andrade Gutierrez have testified that the company paid suppliers for President Dilma Rousseff's 2010 electoral campaign off the books, newspaper a Folha de S.Paulo reported on Tuesday.

• Friday, January 22nd 2016 - 07:05 UTC

  Lula furious over bribe allegations says he's the most honest man in Brazil

  

  Brazil's ex president Lula da Silva declared that there is “no more honest living soul in the country” than him, as he angrily rejected new corruption allegations linking himself and some of his relatives to the corruption scandal involving state-run oil company Petrobras.

• Saturday, June 20th 2015 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil's top two construction tycoons arrested in connection to Petrobras case

  

  Brazilian police arrested on Friday Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America's largest engineering and construction company Odebrecht SA, ensnaring the most high-profile executive to date in the corruption investigation at state-run oil firm Petrobras.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Brazilian lawmakers accused of Petrobras graft fight back

  

  Brazil’s congressional heads denied involvement in the country’s largest graft scandal after being named among dozens of politicians for investigation. Renan Calheiros and Eduardo Cunha, the heads of the Senate and Lower House respectively, and Rio de Janeiro Senator Lindbergh Farias all rejected allegations of graft in the Petrobras kickback scheme dubbed “Carwash.”