Corruption

Amazon Megadam: European Companies Line Up to Bid for Giant New Hydro Project

Major European energy companies are set to build and run the controversial mega-dam project planned for the Tapajos river in the heart of the Amazon. This comes as a senior construction official has implicated the nearby Belo Monte dam in the massive corruption scandal that has engulfed President Dilma Rousseff and the country’s most powerful political figures. The Brazilian government is …


Brazil Graft Crackdown Spurs Work for Lawyers, Corporate Change

In the midst of Brazil’s worst recession in decades, lawyer Thiago Jabor Pinheiro switched firms to focus full-time on one of the only booming fields in the scandal-plagued country: compliance and corporate ethics. For Pinheiro, a massive corruption investigation unfolding at state-run oil firm Petrobras offers a golden opportunity. The scandal broke just as a tough new anti- …