The documents presented below are official and were obtained by searching the websites of Brazil’s justice system’s organs. They may not be related to the facts described above, seeing as they may refer to cases that still haven’t been fully examined.
- Sentence given by then-judge Sergio Moro, in which Marcelo Odebrecht, Paulo Roberto Costa Renato Duque, among other Odebrecht and Petrobras executives, are convicted. Three offshore companies set up in Panama are mentioned in said sentence. Excerpts:
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- “Maranelle Investment, an offshore company based in Panama, holder of an account at Safra Sarasin Bank, in Geneva, Swtizerland, is controlled by Mário Frederico de Mendonça Goes and was used to transfer bribe money to accounts controlled by defendant Pedro Barusco and to the Services Executive Board”.
- “Renato de Souza Duque allegedly opened two secret bank accounts in the Principality of Monaco, one on behalf of offshore company Milzart Overseas, created in Panama, and another for offshore company Pamore Assets, also created in Panama. Both accounts were set up at Julius Baer Bank, at the Principality of Monaco”.
(Court ruling)
Date of document: September 21, 2015
Produced by: Ruling by Curitiba’s 13th Court (by then-federal judge Sérgio Moro)
- In a ruling given by then-federal judge Sérgio Moro, there is mention of a transfer of over US$ 1 million in less than three months (between May 19, 2009 and August 3, 2009) to an account in Switzerland, by an offshore company from Panama called Constructora Internacional del Sur, that allegedly was used by Odebrecht. Ruling)
Date of document: March 9, 2015
Produced by: Ruling by Curitiba’s 13th Court (by then-federal judge Sérgio Moro)
- In an e-mail from August 2007, Marcelo Odebrecht sent a note to the company’s board members regarding contracts in Mexico that were of interest to the company, asking them to give it to his father (Emílio Odebrecht), “to be handed to the seminarist” (a likely reference to Gilberto de Carvalho, then-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s head of cabinet). The Federal Police agent that wrote the report points out that “three days after the message was sent, Lula went on a state visit to Mexico and four other countries (…) [Panama included], which explains Marcelo’s rush to deliver the note”. report written by a Paraná state Federal Police agent, analysing the contents of a hard disk drive apprehended from Marcelo Odebrecht’s secretary, Darci Luz)
Date of document: September 13, 2016
Produced by: Paraná state Federal Police
- In a hard disk drive apprehended from one of Odebrecht’s offices, there are numerous coded notes. Some of them mention Panama, such as the following:
- Attention base: P. Wetzel, Imp. BR…
Citi vs Panama
Contributions for Marta
- Panama’s Ambassador brother RR
Citi vs Panama: e-mail GM
- Precautions image publication Swiss
Panama
Businessman/our share. agribiz.
Tadeu, MMX, Vacari
Sabesp and others
Copa partnership with the Germans or the Portuguese
Pol./strategy SP
Pes Pref SPvsPanama
- Trip to Cuba +
2.Visual identity for LE Eng. and Const. activities++
- Bra-Mex Institute Project (L. Cárdenas) +++
- Abreu e Lima documentary +++
- Lula+HC quarterly meetings – Preparation +++ (*)
6.Ven in Mercosur +++
- Panama political project +
8.Restructuring, Simplification of area RI CNO ++++
André vs talks with Gov vs Canal
Bouygues/Canal
ICA Panama contract
Room for Astaldi
KBR + Parsons
Answer Bougys.
Port/DPW vs MJ
Panamanians training
Energy Op. Panama PCHs
EA: Alt. salt:
FG: Baba? CClI
JP/BJ: EO vs Constran
Palocci: cta Rennau + 3
EA: Paul vs Cylela vs Marina
LT: JDirceu vs Nicaragua
JP/BJ: harbour market
(report written by a Paraná state Federal Police agent, analysing the contents of a hard disk drive apprehended from Marcelo Odebrecht’s secretary, Darci Luz)
Date of document: August 23, 2016
Produced by: Paraná state Federal Police
Date of document: June 7, 2016
Produced by: Paraná state Federal Police
- In an information of charges from March 2015, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Curitiba mentions Panamanian offshore companies: Maranelle, supposedly controlled by businessman Mario Góes (suspect of operating the Petrobras money siphoning scheme), and Rhea Comercial Inc, whose representative allegedly was Pedro Barusco, a former Petrobras manager. (Charges filed)
Date of document: March 16, 2015
Produced by: Public Prosecutor’s Office
- In the preventive detention warrant for former Petrobras board member Jorge Zelada, drafted in June 2015, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Curitiba reports that the former executive was the sole beneficiary of offshore company Rockfield International, based in Panama. The company had an account at a bank from the Principality of Monaco and the balance, at the date of the warrant’s issuing, was € 11.5 million (approximately US$ 13 million). (Warrant from the Public Prosecutor’s Office
Date of document: June 9, 2015
Produced by: Public Prosecutor’s Office in Curitiba
- In a document accompanying the preventive detention warrant for former Petrobras manager Celso Araripe de Oliveira, drafted in June 2015, a Curitiba Federal Police report points out that the corruption scheme in the state-owned company had been widespread for years and mentions the case of another former manager, Pedro Barusco. “Even though BARUSCO does not know exactly how these payments were made, he does mention that the amounts given from ODEBRECHT to him were received via PEXO CORPORATION’s account, originating from deposits made by CONSTRUCTORA INTERNACIONAL DEL SUR, both based in Panama”. (Federal Police report)
Date of document: July 20, 2015
Produced by: Public Prosecutor’s Office in Curitiba
- In the preventive detention warrants for former Petrobras managers, Glauco Legatti and Roberto Gonçalves, drafted in June 2015, the Federal Police in Curitiba points out that Legatti was visited many times by former Odebrecht board members, such as Márcio Faria, and by an alleged financial operator in the corruption scheme, Bernardo Freiburghaus. The Federal Police’s report mentions that Faria, Freiburghaus and others set up bank accounts in Panama and in five other countries, in the name of 16 offshore companies created in Panama and in other three countries. According to the Federal Police, throughout 115 wire transfers involving these bank accounts, over R$ 1 billion were laundered, using the exchange rate of the time (1.9 million Swiss francs plus US$ 313 million). (Federal Police report)
Date of document: October 9, 2015
Produced by: Federal Police in Curitiba
- In a preventive detention warrant and other measures, drafted in June 2016, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Curitiba reports some facts discovered in the investigations made on how the Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca was used, in Brazil, to set up offshore companies that, in turn, were used to launder money siphoned from Petrobras. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, “part of the public agents and operators in the scheme that defrauded Petrobras’ public biddings, which, through a cartel composed of the largest civil construction companies in the country and calls itself ‘the club’, covered up the illegally-acquired assets by using offshore companies set up by the Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca’s Brazilian branch (…).
(Arrest and break of confidentiality warrants issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office)
Date of document: June 17, 2016
Produced by: Public Prosecutor’s Office in Curitiba
- PET 6729 – Sole Number: 0002529-10.2017.1.00.0000 – STF
December 14, 2016
In Brazil’s Supreme Court, this motion has Justice Edson Fachin as judge-rapporteur, and handles the testimonies given by several Odebrecht former executives. In one of them, Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht, then-chairman of Odebrecht, recounts the transfer of the company’s Structured Operations Sector (the sector responsible for handling the bribery payments) in 2014 to the Dominican Republic.
