A recording accidentally attached to an email is the latest twist in the Brazil's corruption scandal
by Jill Langlois
Brazil’s prosecutors broke the world’s biggest corruption scandal wide open with the help of one man.
Joesley Batista, a billionaire who with his brother owns the world’s largest meatpacker, JBS, admitted in May to paying out more than $192 million in bribes to roughly 1,900 politicians in exchange for favors for his company.
He also handed over an audio recording of a March conversation he had with President Michel Temer, who appears to approve the payment of hush money to Eduardo Cunha, a former congressman who was impeached and is now in prison for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.
In return for the information, prosecutors allowed Batista and his brother, Wesley, to avoid jail time and each pay fines of $35 million, along with a $3.3-billion fine paid by their holding company J&F.
But it turns out Batista didn’t tell them everything.
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