Marcelo Odebrecht

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Marcelo Odebrecht (2007).

Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht (born October 18, 1968 in Salvador da Bahia ) is a Brazilian civil engineer and billionaire. From January 1, 2002, he was President of the Construtora Norberto Odebrecht (CNO) family company based in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil. Odebrecht is Latin America 's largest engineering and construction company. In 2015 Marcelo Odebrecht was arrested in the course of the Operaçao Lava Jato ("Operation High Pressure Washer ") for extensive corruption, money laundering and involvement in a criminal organization and later sentenced to 19 years in prison.

Life

Marcelo Odebrecht graduated from the Universidade Federal da Bahia with a degree in civil engineering in 1991. He joined the Odebrecht group in 1992. Since joining the family business, he has consolidated the group's presence in Latin America, Angola , Portugal and the United States and gained new markets in the Middle East.

Marcelo Odebrecht was Vice President of the Brazilian Association for Infrastructure and Basic Industry (ABDIB) since 2005 and is CEO of the subsidiary Braskem . In late 2008, Marcelo President of Odebrecht , the holding company of the group with an annual turnover of 45.044 billion US dollars (2010).

In the course of the Operação Lava Jato , Marcelo Odebrecht was arrested by the Brazilian federal police on June 19, 2015 . He was accused of corruption . He is said to have led a cartel to award contracts to the state-owned oil company Petrobras . After a month of pre-trial detention, Marcelo Odebrecht was charged by the public prosecutor's office on suspicion of economic crime , bribery of officials , money laundering and price fixing and sentenced on March 8, 2016 to 19 years and four months in prison. Due to subsequent cooperation within the framework of a leniency program, he was able to reduce his prison sentence to ten years by naming individual bribe recipients. In addition to Odebrecht, 78 other managers in his group also provided the investigators with comprehensive information on the corruption of their company at the end of 2016. The statements sparked one of the largest anti-corruption cases in the history of Latin America. Suspects include ex-presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB), Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff , as well as incumbent president Michel Temer .

Marcelo Odebrecht was released into house arrest in December 2017 and is spending the remainder of his sentence in his home in São Paulo.

Individual evidence

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  9. ^ Adriana Justi, Bibiana Dionísio: Justiça Federal condena Marcelo Odebrecht em ação da Lava Jato. In: O Globo G1. March 8, 2016, Retrieved May 4, 2016 (Portuguese).
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personal data
SURNAME Odebrecht, Marcelo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Odebrecht, Marcelo Bahia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century