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Greek Shipping Companies Allegedly Involved in Brazilian Bribery Scandal

Brazilian authorities have accused ensnaring U.S. asphalt maker Sargeant Marine, six Greek shipping companies and a former Brazilian congressman in a wide-ranging graft probe.

Brazilian authorities said they were investigating allegations that Greek shipping companies paid bribes to obtain contracts from Petrobras, a Brazilian state-owned oil company.

According to prosecutors, Konstantinos Kotronakis, Greece‘s honorary consul in Rio de Janeiro, paid bribes and provided insider information to help the shipping companies win more than $500 million worth of contracts from Petrobras from 2009 to 2013.

The bribes, worth 2% of the contracts, were paid to civil servants, financial operators and politicians, investigators said.

The companies, which include Olympic Agencies, Perosea Shipping, Tsakos Aegean Dynacom Tankers Management, Galbraiths and Dorian Hellas, could not immediately be reached for comment.

The so-called Car Wash probe has revealed Brazil’s largest-ever corruption scheme, uncovering kickbacks from executives to powerful politicians in return for contracts at state-run enterprises, especially Petrobras.

Police issued arrest warrants for an unnamed representative of Sargeant Marine, and for two unidentified people who were Petrobras managers at the time and were accused of involvement.

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