The Swiss judicial authorities announced Thursday that blocked 800 million-twice what was announced earlier- under the corruption scandal plaguing the Brazilian state oil giant Petrobras.
AFP
"In the framework of 60 criminal investigations have been blocked equity securities worth about 800 million dollars," he said the Swiss attorney general said in a statement.
Switzerland had previously indicated have blocked $ 400 million since the start of the investigation in April 2014.
Of that amount and according to the account holders, 120 million dollars were released and transferred to Brasilia.
On Thursday, the attorney general's office said that Switzerland would "unlock again about 70 million dollars in favor of Brazil."
This announcement comes after the meeting in Bern between the Attorney General of Brazil Rodrigo Janot and his Swiss counterpart Michael Lauber to speak "of collaboration between the two prosecutors' offices in relation to the joint research of Petrobras," the statement said.
The discussion also dealt with "the creation of a joint research group with the aim of speeding" criminal proceedings in both countries, said the prosecutor's office.
Research 'tentacular' on Petrobras revealed that the most powerful construction companies in Brazil were distributed between 2004 and 2014 bids for the company paying kickbacks to some of its executives in exchange for contracts, over-invoicing for that between 1% and 3% plus. Petrobras lost in the corruption scandal over 2,000 million dollars.
Dozens of politicians, executives and entrepreneurs are in prison or are under investigation for their involvement in the scandal that shakes the whole of Brazil.
Lula himself president (2003-2010), an icon of the Brazilian left, is being investigated for possible crimes of "corruption" and "money laundering" case in another branch.
The Swiss prosecutor investigating the case since April 2014 and opened a 60 criminal investigations on suspicion of aggravated money laundering and, in many cases, on suspicion of bribery of foreign public officials.
In this context, he said on Thursday that from the beginning of the investigation ordered the transfer of documents "concerning a total of more than 1,000 accounts in more than 40 banks."