Brazil's Odebrecht paid $3.3 billion in bribes
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Through a department specifically established to pay politicians and other recipients for public works contracts, Odebrecht paid as much as $730 million annually in both 2012 and 2013, the years when bribe payments peaked.
This is according to a spreadsheet that a former executive reportedly gave investigators as part of a plea deal.
The $3.3 billion figure, and related annual tallies as laid out in the spreadsheet, were reported on Saturday by the G1 news site of the Globo media group and the Estado de S. Paulo, a leading newspaper. ■