Petrobras will investigate bribery during Gabrielli's administration.
Petrobras announced that it "will take appropriate measures" to "verify the veracity" of a complaint made by a self-proclaimed former employee of the Dutch group SBM Offshore, from whom it leases at least eight offshore platforms, two of which are under construction, regarding an alleged bribery scheme involving the Brazilian state-owned company and other firms from eight other countries. According to the mysterious man, SBM paid approximately US$139 million in bribes between 2006 and 2011, a period when the Brazilian state-owned company was headed by José Sérgio Gabrielli, a member of the Workers' Party (PT).
Bahia 247 - Out of the spotlight since his withdrawal from the PT's internal race to represent the party in the succession of Governor Jaques Wagner, the head of the State Planning Secretariat (Seplan), José Sérgio Gabrielli, is expected to return to the scene in a negative way.
A member of the Workers' Party may have his name included in a new case of bribery payments by a foreign company to Brazilian state-owned enterprises.
After scandals revealed illicit relationships between the conglomerates Siemens and Alstom and transportation and energy companies in São Paulo and Santa Catarina, Petrobras announced that it "will take appropriate measures" to "verify the veracity" of a complaint made by a self-proclaimed former employee of the Dutch group SBM Offshore, from whom it leases at least eight offshore platforms, two of which are under construction.
In a Wikipedia article published in October 2013, the man, whose name is not revealed, details an alleged bribery scheme involving a Brazilian state-owned company and other firms in eight other countries.
According to him, SBM allocated approximately US$139 million in bribes between 2006 and 2011, a period during which Gabrielli was the head of Brazil's main oil company.
According to the newspaper Valor Econômico, investigations into the case have already been opened in the United States, England, and the Netherlands.
Petrobras stated in an article in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper that it has not been notified by the courts of the countries mentioned or by Brazilian regulatory bodies. Gabrielli, in turn, said he will not comment.