Weekly Report - 17 August 2017 (WR-17-32)

MEXICO | Pemex scandal. The bribery scandal surrounding the Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht seems to strike a new government in the region every week. This week was the turn of Mexico. On 13 August Brazil’s daily O Globo published a report citing senior Odebrecht executives who alleged that the former director of Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya Austin (2012-2016), accepted bribes amounting to US$10m over a two-year period between 2012 and 2014. Mexico’s current affairs magazine Proceso and investigative digital news site Aristegui Noticias ran similar reports providing dates, names, size of bribery installments, and bank account details.

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