Corruption Incorporated: The Odebrecht Story

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Odebrecht was one of Brazil’s premier companies – the largest construction firm in Latin America. But some of its success in securing multi-million dollar contracts across the region was built on a policy of colossal bribery. The testimony of Odebrecht executives in plea-bargain agreements with prosecutors continues to have fall-out, especially with former President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva now in jail on charges related to Brazil’s wider corruption scandal. Across the region, heads have rolled in the wake of the revelations. Peru’s president was recently forced to resign and Ecuador’s vice-president is in prison. Linda Pressly visits Panama, where Odebrecht remains in the headlines, and where there are demands to terminate the company’s on-going contracts.

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0:00.0	Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the documentary
0:05.4	podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our presenters and reporters
0:10.5	across the world. If you have the time, please rate the documentary on
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0:18.3	Well, it's great to have you with us for the next hour for Corruption Incorporated and hopefully if you like what you hear
0:25.9	you'll write us a review or tell your audio fiend friends about us.
0:31.3	This is the gobsmackingaking story of Odibrech, a company that was Brazil's
0:36.0	premier construction firm and the largest in Latin America. It's a tale of politics and
0:41.7	greed and Jessica Doss Santos Cruz, a Brazilian journalist,
0:45.4	has been working on this for a good many months now.
0:48.4	What I've learned in these months is that ordinary people are very impacted about the corruption in Brazil
0:56.0	and the huge amount of money that has been paying bribes could serve for education, health, public system.
1:05.0	Okay, listen up.
1:07.0	Corruption Incorporated, the story of
1:20.3	Odibrecht, a Brazilian mega company convicted of slees on an industrial scale.
1:25.0	I'm Linda Presley and for the next hour do stay with me and journalist Jessica Cruz,
1:30.0	my guide and translator in Brazil, as we propel you to the heart of the largest bribery scandal in history.
1:37.0	For the brush case implicated almost one-third of our senators and almost a half of the Brazilian governors.
1:46.0	This makes Watergate scandal seems like a couple of kids playing in a sandbox.
1:54.0	A couple of kids playing in a sandbox.
1:56.0	In this case was huge.
2:00.0	And not just in Brazil.
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