The Treasurer of the Brazilian
Workers' Party,
João Vaccari Neto, was arrested in 2015 for allegedly receiving "irregular donations", and
José Dirceu, former chief of staff for President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was arrested for orchestrating a large part of the scandal, also in 2015.
Speaker of the
Chamber of Deputies (
lower house of the
Congress of Brazil)
Eduardo Cunha (
PMDB-
RJ), was investigated for allegedly receiving more than US$40 million in kickbacks and bribes. He was imprisoned in October 2016 and his accounts frozen.
Former Minister of Mines and Energy Edison Lobão (
PMDB) was investigated for receiving more than US$50 million in bribes from Petrobras and arrested 19 October 2016 and held in custody due to what the justice department of
Paraná state called "a concrete possibility of flight given his access to hidden resources abroad, as well as double nationality." In February 2016, amidst the Peruvian presidential race, a report from the Brazilian Federal Police implicated Peruvian president
Ollanta Humala as a recipient of bribes from Odebrecht in exchange for public works contracts. Humala rejected the accusation and avoided any confrontation with the media on the matter. Under the Humala administration Odebrecht received contracts worth US$152 million, in addition to the $7.3 billion Southern Gas Pipeline project and $60 million in contracts with regional governments in Peru. Lula was charged with
money laundering and corruption and after his appeal was unsuccessful was arrested in 2018. He would later be released in November 2019 by a Supreme Federal Court ruling. According to a 2021 study, "Odebrecht paid bribes for two reasons: to tailor the terms of the auction in its favor, as well as to obtain favorable terms in contract renegotiations. In projects where Odebrecht paid bribes, costs increased by 70.8 percent on average, compared with 5.6 percent for projects with no bribes. We also find that bribes and profits made from bribing were smaller than documented in most previous studies, in the range of one to two percent of the cost of a project."
Argentina •
Gustavo Arribas, director of Argentina's
Federal Intelligence Agency under the government of
Mauricio Macri.
Colombia •
Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian president. • Gabriel García, former Colombian minister of Transportation during the government of
Álvaro Uribe."The attorney general has evidence that Mr. Garcia sought payment of $6.5 million to guarantee that Odebrecht was the company chosen for the Ruta del Sol Dos, excluding other competitors," attorney general told reporters. •
Óscar Iván Zuluaga, former Colombian minister of Finance during the government of
Álvaro Uribe.
Dominican Republic At least $92 million of the bribes Odebrecht has admitted making were paid in the Dominican Republic, and 14 people were charged with bribery or money laundering. The Dominican Republic announced in February $184 million in fines — twice the amount of its illicit payments to win public works contracts between 2001 and 2014.
Ecuador •
Rafael Correa former president of Ecuador, 2007–2017. Sentenced to eight years of prison on April 7, 2020. •
Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador. Sentenced to eight years of prison on April 7, 2020. •
Manuel Baldizón, former deputy of Congress. • An
Odebrecht employee told a Brazilian court that he had been asked to pay a bribe to
Emilio Lozoya Austin, then head of the Mexican state-owned oil company
PEMEX.
Panama The attorney-general of Panama has announced that 43 people suspected of involvement in the bribery scandal. Odebrecht is the largest government contractor in Panama, with contracts over 500 million, including
a subway line in Panama City.
Peru •
Alejandro Toledo, former Peruvian president. Peru requested his extradition from the United States on charges of accepting $20 million in Odebrecht bribes. •
Ollanta Humala and
Nadine Heredia, former Peruvian president and former Peruvian first lady, who have been detained for up to 18 months in connection with this scandal. •
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peru's president from 2016 to 2018, who in December 2017 appeared before
Congress to defend himself against
impeachment over allegations of covering up illegal payments of $782m from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht to Kuczynski's company Westfield Capital Ltd. Keiko Fujimori, who lost the
2016 presidential elections by a margin of fewer than 50,000 votes, is championing the motion; her party has already forced out five government ministers. He resigned from his position on 22 March due to a scandal of bribing people to not vote for his vacancy for receiving money from Odebrecht. •
Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the now-imprisoned ex president
Alberto Fujimori, was detained in October 2018 for implicating herself into the already corrupt scandal. She was put on pretrial detention, and was eventually released. •
Alan Garcia, former Peruvian president. Garcia committed suicide on April 17, 2019.
Venezuela •
Nicolás Maduro,
President of Venezuela. •
Henrique Capriles, opposition candidate at the 2012 and 2013 presidential elections.
Uruguay • Maya Cikurel Spiller, partner of
Pablo Da Silveira, Uruguay's
Culture and Education Minister under the government of
Luis Lacalle Pou. ==Paradise Papers==