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A former Ecuadorean comptroller was arrested this week in a U.S. money laundering case, accused of using his position to demand millions in bribes from Odebrecht.

The massive scheme was the subject of ICIJ's 2019 #BriberyDivision investigation.
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#BriberyDivision detailed hundreds of millions in secret payments, exposing the extent of engineering giant Odebrecht’s cash-for-contracts operation and the then-unreported involvement of prominent figures and massive public works projects in Latin America.bit.ly/3IV8py8
Leaked documents showed links between the former Ecuadorian comptroller Carlos Polit Faggioni’s Miami-based son and a U.S. shell company, which became a pass-through for the alleged bribery payments by Odebrecht, ICIJ partner @MiamiHerald reported.
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Congratulations to the 75+ reporters from 14 countries who worked on #ChinaCables!

The investigation into China's surveillance and mass internment of Uighurs and other minorities won @SPJDC's Robert D. G. Lewis Watchdog Award last night!

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Judges said the investigation, which was based on leaked classified government documents, was an “an impressive use of records, source trust-building and shoe-leather reporting on a delicate and dangerous situation, with global implications.”

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Two of our other investigations - #MauritiusLeaks and #BriberyDivision – were also honored as finalists in the awards.

Congrats to all the reporters from across the world who helped tell these important stories! 🥳 We couldn't do it without you!

#Collaborativejournalism
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In 2019, the @MiamiHerald produced world-class journalism, and we couldn’t have done it without our subscribers and loyal readers like you. (THREAD) hrld.us/2tifbwZ
We continued to cover Jeffrey Epstein — including his arrest and the fallout after he was found dead — and compiled all of our #PerversionofJustice coverage in one archive, including a new documentary. hrld.us/2M9Pjdh
We investigated how President Donald Trump had become a favorite target of a little-known Chinese industry peddling access to the rich and powerful, mainly though Mar-a-Lago #TrumpTourism hrld.us/35br30Z
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Former exec tied to Odebrecht’s ‘bribery division’ is held after arrest at JFK airport hrld.us/2XAN6vC
A collaborative reporting project involving partners across the Americas — including the @MiamiHerald and @McClatchyDC — spotlighted Odebrecht’s so-called bribery division. hrld.us/2IPrkPm
@McClatchyDC Thanks to a leak of secret company documents and file registries, the investigative series revealed a fuller story of Odebrecht’s corrupt practices — and Miami’s role. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2IPrkPm
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You wouldn’t know it by the nondescript office here that has nothing hanging on the wall, but Pedro Lupera is a threat to the top echelons of the embattled Venezuelan government. hrld.us/2yQ0zUS
Living in exile in the U.S., Lupera is still a prosecutor on the job. At his request, @mcclatchy and the @MiamiHerald are not revealing where he works, out of his concern over retribution.
@mcclatchy He discloses only that he’s working with an international body in the United States, and that he has shared with an array of U.S. agencies the information he dug up while probing illicit payments by Brazilian company Odebrecht and the Venezuelan state oil company known as PDVSA.
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NEW: Emails dating from 2007 to 2015 chronicle how Odebrecht tried to curry favor with the Castros in Cuba while also keeping its dealings with them hidden. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2K9DfrX
The construction firm Odebrecht is at the center of one of the biggest scandals to hit Latin America. It also has a BIG footprint in S. Fla. Whether it’s AmericanAirlines Arena, MIA, PortMiami, local highways, Odebrecht is behind it. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2IPrkPm
Thanks to a leak of secret company documents and file registries, a fuller story of Odebrecht’s corrupt practices — and Miami’s role — is being pieced together. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2IO5ifx
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The US just sanctioned businessman Alex Saab for "wide-scale corruption" in food programs meant to help the Venezuelan people. The news shows the power of investigative journalism - and the courage of ICIJ members @jopoliszuk @Ewalds6 (thread)
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@jopoliszuk @Ewalds6 Their outlet @ArmandoInfo published stories showing that Saab, working w cronies in senior posts in the Maduro regime, were ripping off food programs even as children in Venezuela were dying of hunger. Here's one of their stories
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@jopoliszuk @Ewalds6 @ArmandoInfo Of course, Saab didn't like what they revealing, & the Maduro regime didn't either. So Saab sued Joseph, Ewald and others, forcing the journalists to flee the country in fear of imprisonment. I spoke w Joseph after that happened
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Este hilo analiza la carta de @LaPosta_Ecu al alcalde
(Sáltese si ya le cansó el tema)
"Espero que nuestro próximo intercambio público VUELVA a ser sobre temas de interés para la ciudad" es el "vaya regale un perro" elegante: tanto Boscan como Vivanco pretenden ordenar al alcalde que deje de hablar de #NoHayPlataParaLaPauta...
...Yo sí creo que es de interés para la ciudad saber si en los medios de comunicación la pauta influye o no en la línea editorial.
En lugar de debatir el tema, la prensa prefirió matar al mensajero (caricatura bonil, señalar el pautaje del grupo canela, #culpadecorrea...), o...
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An Ecuadorean politician fighting extradition for extorting bribe money from Brazilian firm Odebrecht faces a court date in Miami over a potentially explosive lawsuit. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2IZ3alz
Thanks to a leak of secret company documents and file registries, a fuller story of Odebrecht’s corrupt practices — including Miami’s role — is finally being pieced together. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2IO5ifx
The records were obtained by the Ecuadorean news organization @LaPosta_Ecu and shared with @ICIJorg and media partners across the Americas, including @McClatchy, the @MiamiHerald and @elNuevoHerald. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2IO5ifx
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He was one of the strongest defenders of a $2B coal plant in the Dominican Republic. What he didn't reveal: He had been paid more than $3M by Odebrecht, the Brazilian firm that had won a contract to build the plant. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2NgBIUe
This and other discoveries were made after poring through a fresh trove of leaked records from an Odebrecht division created for the explicit purpose of managing the company’s bribes. #BriberyDivision
The records were obtained by the Ecuadorean news organization @LaPosta_Ecu and shared with @ICIJorg and media partners across the Americas, including @McClatchy, the @MiamiHerald and @elNuevoHerald. #BriberyDivision
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When Peru’s ex-president shot himself in the head as officers were waiting to arrest him, he was facing charges tied to Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company at the center of one of the biggest scandals to hit Latin America. (THREAD) #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2ILXgDY
Odebrecht isn’t a household name in the U.S., but it has a BIG footprint in South Florida. You name it: whether it’s AmericanAirlines Arena, FIU’s football stadium, MIA, PortMiami, even local highways, Odebrecht is behind it. #BriberyDivision
And it was from a posh perch in Miami that two Odebrecht executives labored in near anonymity, moving money through offshore shell companies to bank accounts in Switzerland and Panama. #BriberyDivision hrld.us/2IO5ifx
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New ICIJ investigation #BriberyDivision reveals undiscovered payments across Latin America made by Odebrecht's bribery unit. Here's what 50+ journalists across the Americas found in Odebrecht's secret files... 🧐
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In the Dominican Republic, we found over $39 million in payments linked to the Punta Catalina power plant, despite two official investigations that found no evidence of corruption. ICIJ all-star @AliciaOrtegah uncovers what Dominican prosecutors couldn't
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In Ecuador, we found new evidence of payments linked to the massive Quito Metro and Ruta Viva projects. Ecuadorian prosecutors had found there was no evidence of corruption linked to the Quito Metro, but @eluniversocom found otherwise
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NEW: Our latest collaboration with 50 reporters across 10 countries in the Americas – the #BriberyDivision – reveals Odebrecht’s cash-for-contracts operation was even bigger than the company had acknowledged. bit.ly/2YhnALC #LavaJato #Odebrecht
#Odebrecht is the Brazilian multinational at the center of what the @TheJusticeDept called the “largest foreign bribery case in history.” It previously agreed to pay $2.6 billion to US, Brazilian & Swiss authorities in exchange for immunity or reduced penalties. #BriberyDivision
Together we’ve dug through 13,000+ files that come from Odebrecht’s Division of Structured Operations – the special unit created for managing and communicating about its secret payments. (Also where our investigation get its name #BriberyDivision) bit.ly/2Fsi9SL
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