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The Bribery Division: A look into Odebrecht’s bribery scandal

An investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveals that Odebrecht’s cash-for-contracts operation was even bigger than the Brazilian company has acknowledged. Here's a look into the bribery scandal.

THE BRIBERY DIVISION

Influential economist defended construction giant. Secretly it paid his firm millions


By Ben Wieder,

Kevin G. Hall, and

Alicia Ortega Hasbún 

June 27, 2019 09:02 AM, Updated June 27, 2019 09:02 AM


As questions swirled about the ballooning price tag for a $2 billion coal plant in the Dominican Republic, one of the strongest defenders of the project was a prominent Dominican economist named Andrés Dauhajre Hijo.

Writing in the newspaper El Caribe in February 2017, Dauhajre called criticism of the Punta Catalina project’s costs “the best-selling lie in recent years.”

But Dauhajre’s accounting of the project left out one detail.

He didn’t disclose that he had been paid more than $3 million by Odebrecht S.A., the Brazilian construction firm that had won a 2013 contract to build the plant. That $3 million was on top of the money his consulting firm had previously received from the government to help review the bids of Odebrecht and others.

Those payments were among the revelations in a tranche of leaked data and documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists showing the inner-workings of Odebrecht’s Drousys system, an alternative accounting system the company used to keep track of $788 million worth of bribes and other off-the-books payments it doled out to politicians and government officials in 12 countries in Latin America and Africa.

Reporters from McClatchy, The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald are part of a team of more than 50 journalists in 10 countries who analyzed the leaked documents for more than four months.

The Drousys system showed payments connected to several projects in the Dominican Republic, including more than $3.3 million in 2014 paid to a shell company associated with Dauhjare, called Baker Street Financial Inc.

That same company — with Dauhajre listed as the sole director — purchased a $2 million midtown-Manhattan apartment in December 2015.


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When confronted with records of the payments and property records linking him to the shell company, Dauhajre acknowledged that he had been paid by the Brazilian company for “financial consulting services,” helping the company shore up financing for the coal plant when its original financing fell through.

“Baker Street Financial Inc. successfully and effectively provided the advisory service requested by Odebrecht during the years 2014 and 2015,” Dauhajre said in the statement. “Several of the financing options proposed by Baker Street Financial Inc. to Odebrecht were presented and eventually accepted by the Dominican State, allowing the development of the Project to materialize.”

In the Dominican Republic alone, Odebrecht gave out $92 million to government officials and their intermediaries, part of a much broader pattern of corruption involving assorted countries, according to Odebrecht’s December 2016 plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Odebrecht S.A. agreed to pay a record $2.6 billion fine in the case.

So far, the Dominican Republic’s attorney general has determined that many of Odebrecht’s 17 projects in the country were associated with graft.

 

Andrés Dauhajre Hijo’s consulting firm helped the Dominican government evaluate proposals to build the Punta Catalina coal-fired plant. When Odebrecht won the contract, the firm was paid millions by the company for its advice.

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ROME—Plinio Correa de Oliveira is almost as peculiar in death as he was in life. Dr. Plinio, as he is still known by his devout followers, was a right-wing Catholic figure who founded the ultra conservative Tradition, Family and Property Association, known in Catholic circles as the TFP.

In the early 1960s, he famously came to Rome to protest the opening of the Second Vatican Council, which sought to modernize the Catholic Church in a changing era. He called such attempts at renewal “a point in history as sad as the death of our Lord” and handed out propaganda with similar sentiments.

In death, Dr. Plinio is said to be in close contact with Satan, who supposedly can be channeled by Brazilian exorcists. He also apparently rules the so-called afterlife to such an extent that his followers are convinced he controls climate change and is working toward the death of Pope Francis, according to Andrea Tornielli, who writes the Vatican Insider blog, and has published a series of articles outlining this saga worthy of a Dan Brown bestseller.

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Catholic Priests Leads Interreligious Center at the Olympics

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Jul 21 2016 - 10:34am | Lise Alves - Catholic News Service



An aerial view of Rio de Janeiro on July 16 shows the Christ the Redeemer statue with Maracana stadium in the background. (CNS photo/Ricardo Moraes, Reuters)


About two weeks before the opening ceremony for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Father Leandro Lenin Tavares was putting the final touches on what he hopes will be a very successful spiritual mission: coordinating the interreligious center for athletes at the Olympic Village.

"We hope that the center will encourage harmony and unity among different countries and among different religions," Father Tavares told Catholic News Service.

He said the center would be open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week, from July 24-Aug. 24 for Olympic athletes and their delegations and Sept. 1-21 for Paralympic athletes and delegations.

The center will have five meeting rooms, each occupied by one of the five faiths chosen by the International Olympic Committee: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. The Catholic Church will represent the Christian faith.

The center will host not only group meetings and Masses but also will offer individual guidance to those who seek religious support.

In the Catholic space, Masses will be held in Spanish, Portuguese and English on a daily basis, but Father Tavares said there would be priests who speak also French and Italian, for individual or group support. He said some delegations have chosen to bring with them their own religious leader, and that they will also be able to use the interreligious center for their spiritual needs.

"The German delegation, for example, is expected to bring its own chaplain," said the priest who participated in a similar center at the 2015 Toronto Pan-American Games.

Father Leandro said although he understands the criticism the center's organizers recently received from leaders of other religions that were not included in the center, the Olympic Committee made the choices based on overall religious representation of the athletes competing.

"Athletes who seek these types of services come not only for spiritual guidance, but to find emotional balance before they compete. I hope they will all find the support they seek" and, during the competition, reflect "the harmony and unity they will see in here."

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by FRANCES MARTEL12 May 2016

The Senate of Brazil has temporarily deposed President Dilma Rousseff, replacing her for 180 days with her vice president until her impeachment trial concludes.

While millions of Brazilians peacefully took to the streets demanding impeachment before the process began, protests this week in favor of Rousseff grew violent, targeting journalists and police and causing severe traffic delays in major cities.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, a coalition of leftist groups including the Movement of Landless Workers, the Brazil Popular Front, and supporters of Rousseff’s socialist Workers’ Party (PT) closed major streets in states like Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, and Pernambuco, with both human bodies blocking the way and fires designed to block traffic. O Globo reports that socialist protesters blocked traffic in 17 of the nation’s states. Three journalist organizations – the Radio Broadcasters Association, the Brazilian Television (Abert), and the National Association of Newspapers (ANJ) – issued a statement condemning “acts of violence and intimidation against reporters” at these protests.

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