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Mexico & Nafta - November 2018
Odebrecht investigations in Mexico stalled without Brazilian cooperation
It has been described as the biggest corruption scandal – and largest bribery case – in world history. High-profile investigations have been carried out in ten Latin American countries, and a number of prominent politicians across the continent have been implicated in receiving the US$788m that Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht admitted in December 2016 to paying in bribes in order to secure lucrative state contracts around the region. Yet one country in which these investigations have made little headway is Mexico, whose attorney general’s office has complained that Brazilian prosecutors have been holding on to information that they refuse to release, despite requests dating back to 2017. Brazil’s attorney general’s office, however, in a statement released to the Associated Press, claims that it cannot release the information to its Mexican counterpart until the latter signs the relevant agreement on the mutual exchange of evidence.
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