Queiroz Galvão Group
| Queiroz Galvão Group | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Private company |
| founding | 1953 |
| Seat | Recife |
| management | Queiroz Galvão
Dario de Queiroz Galvão |
| Number of employees | approx. 44,000 |
| Branch | Construction company , energy technology manufacturer |
The Queiroz Galvão Group SA is a Brazilian group of companies . It operates in the construction and infrastructure, energy, food and steel industries in Brazil and elsewhere. As part of Operation Lava Jato , the Brazilian Federal Police exposed the family company in 2014 as part of a large bribe consortium.
According to its own information, the group has 44,000 employees in South America and especially in Brazil, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East.
Dario de Queiroz Galvão, executive board member of Grupo Galvão, Marcelo Odebrecht ( Construtora Norberto Odebrecht (CNO)) and a number of other senior executives of Brazilian corporations were arrested in 2014 for bribery in connection with the semi-state oil company Petrobras . They are said to have bribed political parties and politicians directly. Her pre-trial detention was turned into house arrest . In 2016 it became known that the chief manager Queiroz Galvão, notwithstanding the "Operation Jato", commissioned Mossack Fonseca to set up two offshore companies in his name.
Company network
- Queiroz Galvão Energia builds and operates wind farms and hydro energy plants
- Construtora Queiroz Galvão began cooperation between Petrobras and private companies in 1979 with onshore and offshore oil and gas production.
Individual evidence
- ^ Boris Herrmann: Multiple Depression. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 8, 2016, accessed on April 11, 2016
- ↑ The Group - queirozgalvao.com. In: portal.queirozgalvao.com. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ^ Probing Petrobras corruption scandal becoming tougher for prosecutors. In: MercoPress. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .