Panamanian banks appear in Lava Jato corruption scandal.
The first indications of the use of Panamanian banks to launder money diverted from Petrobras appeared when the former manager of Services at the state-owned company, Pedro Barusco, handed investigators documents showing deposits from the offshore company Constructora Internacional Del Sur, based in that country; according to the whistleblower, the company was used by Odebrecht to pay bribes in the scheme installed at Petrobras; the construction company denies this; Duque also used Panamanian banks to launder part of the R$ 70 million found in his name in banks in Monaco.
247 - The first indications of the use of Panamanian banks to launder money embezzled from Petrobras appeared when the former manager of Services at the state-owned company, Pedro Barusco, handed over to investigators documents showing deposits from the offshore company Constructora Internacional Del Sur, based in that country.
According to the whistleblower, the company was used by Odebrecht to pay bribes in the scheme installed at Petrobras. The construction company denies this. Soon after, in a new deposition, the money launderer Alberto Youssef confessed to having received bribes from the construction company through the Panamanian offshore company.
According to the investigations, Duque also used Panamanian banks to launder part of the R$70 million found in his name in Monaco banks and frozen by the courts.