🇧🇷 Brazil: The Car Wash Scandal | People and Power

Launched in early 2014, the operation was initially thought to be routine - one of a number of similar ongoing probes that the Brazilian Federal Police had on their books.
In this case, the targets were doleiros: black-market money dealers who used small businesses, such as petrol stations and car washes, to launder the profits of crime.
But it soon evolved into one of the biggest and most complex corruption investigations in South American history.
Four years on and Lava Jato - or Operation Car Wash, as it is now known in English - has left its mark on 11 countries, from Brazil to Peru.
Business leaders, multinational corporations and leading politicians have been caught up in allegations ranging from bribery and money laundering to attempting to distort the democratic process, with more than 150 people arrested, prosecuted or facing criminal proceedings.
So how and why did this extraordinary investigation become so far-reaching?
We sent filmmaker Luis del Valle and journalist Gustavo Goritti, from Peru's IDL Reporteros, to find out how prosecutors and police began to unravel a case that has sent shock waves across a continent - and still has some way to run.
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[@ThapeloMKT]

Carwash scandal, that's a phrase I'd never expect to hear

[@b-r-a-i-n-r-o-t]

the true scandal is that the courts were weaponized and paved the way for four years of fascism. and you helped AJ but AJ is also based in a theocratic fascist state too so it's understandable

[@joaquinolveraalmazan4620]

Now, I have to say I find it so odd and peculiar that this scandal had no real repercussions here in Mexico !! Nobody was ever prosecuted !! Do you not also find it quite suspicious? Like there's no corruption here in Mexico.

[@ShmuelWeintraub]

This type of thing goes on literally everywhere... including our alleged "free and law abiding" countries. If it wasn't politically advantageous for one side or the other to publicize this in Brazil, it would have remained under the rug (where it was for decades... and the current government didn't seem to mind it then, did it?)

[@benajminpadilla6360]

@@ShmuelWeintraub It goes on everywhere. True. It doesn't make it right. However, it does go on. You are correct in that it was advantageous to another powerful interest in getting this exposed.

[@danyellhenrique]

Agora o questionamento mais importante não foi feito, farei agora: e as séries desse pessoal envolvido, estão em dia?? Fica aí essa dúvida.

[@solangesouza7470]

This Documentary was EXCELLENT and pretty much described what the OPERATION CAR WASH it is, and how is fighting against CORRUPTION IN Brazil, which has caused so much DESTRUCTION in Brazil's Economy's wich has brought as consequences of it millions of unemployment and suffering to the brazilian people, and how the Politians of the Work Party has used PUBLIC MONEY to help spread CORRUPTION around all States in Brazil and around the world to advance COMMUNIST IDEOLOGIES and to help perpetue their power in Brazil's Government and to their COMMARADES around the Globe ! The GREAT MAJORITY of brazilian people SUPPORTS the the PUBLIC PROSECUTORS TEAM of CAR WASH OPERATION that are doing a GREAT JOB in investigating and fighting CORRUPTION and JUDGE SERGIO MORO as well that are a renowned around the Globe for his EXCELLENT in dealing CORRUPTION Cases and for his very courageous decisions that are sending to JAIL many of very powerful Politians and Bussinessmen for participating in BRIBERY and MONEY LAUDERING SCHEEMS ! Thank you for this GREAT WORK of Journalism to bring awareness of what it is happening in the fight against Corruption in Brazil to the whole World !

[@fazluljubaid206]

Here from VOX's video @johnnyharris

[@Bozewani]

Nao mas violacaoez de dereitohumanpo

[@psycdalex]

Snitch

[@ednaperez8246]

The sad thing is that, after all the investigation and evidences, there are a lot of Brazilians that still do not want to accept that corruption escalated to huge proportions under the work's party. Which kind of disease is that?

[@cheetobandido546]

Why subtitles? Most of us listen to, rather than watch, documentaries. Poor choice.

[@youssefmrad6001]

Cheguei do futuro dizer que tudo virou pizza

[@sixsixteensevens297]

Corruption everywhere, bring on the robots!

[@itsolivier]

Seven Sevens how about sweden and Norway, they arrest bankers who corrupt the system

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

"If I Speak, the Republic will Fall"-Quoted from Alberto Youssef warned to lawyers and prosecutors

[@EmpireArcade19]

11:

[@xxxbbbqqq]

"This company had strong links to Lula's party".....Well. what are they?

[@vito7pt]

Socialists and criminals.

[@anavalentimvianna29]

We need lava jato bolsonaros have a lot of process were lava jato?

[@georgelabe-assimo4365]

Eesh...so the pink tide in South America had a lot of connections to this? That’s disturbing to see.

[@ApocaIypse666]

I still don't understand why its called carwash??

[@fmbenevides]

Because it began in a gas station where they use car washing service to wash dirt money.

[@ApocaIypse666]

Fernando Moreno Benevides damn... I need to research this again

[@sixsixteensevens297]

The car wash companies overcharged the corrupt company, that way taking money in a bribe, giving some back and everyone was happy.

[@Luna_LU6546]

Chris News, It`s not! Unless you are speaking about Boeing 737 or Airbus A320

[@rmf9567]

Lula was involved

[@fernandofuriaesq.6266]

Very interesting.

[@talentscout7789]

Very good documentary

[@anavalentimvianna29]

CADE A LAVA JATO..APOSENTOU? CADE A LAVA JATO? ESTA ESPERANDO ANDAR EM PRESCRIÇÃO OS PROCESSOS DOS BOLSONAROS?

[@vegetaworks8275]

Yep.. Hope Bolsonaro cleans this off, or at least starts doing so

[@ShmuelWeintraub]

hahahahahaha! Good joke there! Bolsonaro cleaning up corruption??? Bolsonaro IS CORRUPTION!

[@suvankarsarkar4281]

Would like to see some disturbing topic in middle East countries.

[@Puniess]

suvankar sarkar same

[@brazilianlady885]

8 out of 10 news from Al Jazeera about Brazil are always about favelas, blacks or crime. Al Jazeera only makes news about a very specific small part of the country. People who have been to Brazil know the country is huge and something is ill intended in this channel. That's like making daily news about Detroit and calling it "America". Brazil is not Rio. Brazil has 23 states. Rio is only 1 state.

[@hirinhu]

thats it kkkkk

[@Winterwolfgot]

Brazilian Lady True!

[@brazilianlady885]

Stop your assumptions. These repetitive news aren't normal news. They're only about very specific points and they use specific pictures. Brazilians know that something is wrong with this channel.

[@risa621]

Brazilian Lady Eles fizeram reportagem elogiando a África.

[@jonitan76]

agreed... meanwhile arabs bribe EU congress to accept arabs money and black / muslim rtefugee to europe...and no news about it.

[@josephsmith1893]

LOL.... 2014 World Cup... I forgot.. What was the score again? LOL... Someone remind me.