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Petrobras Agrees to Pay More Than $850 Million for FCPA Violations (comunicado do Departamento de Justiça dos EUA)
- Issuer
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Date
- September 27, 2018
- Type
- Official statement · primary source
- Access
- full text examined · accessed on Oct. 24, 2026
- Original
- www.skadden.com/-/media/files/news/2018/09/doj_press_release_petrobras.pdf
- Note
- Text read from a PDF copy published by the Skadden law firm; the original page at justice.gov could not be opened by the fetch (404 at the address tried).
What we extracted from this document (1)
DOJ (September 27, 2018): Petrobras agreed to pay US$853.2 million, under a non-prosecution agreement, to resolve an FCPA investigation; the United States will credit amounts paid to the SEC and to Brazil, with the DOJ and SEC each receiving 10% (US$85.32 million each) and Brazil 80% (US$682.56 million). A 25% discount off the bottom of the sentencing guidelines range was applied.
Excerpt: “the United States will credit the amount that Petrobras pays to the SEC and Brazil under their respective agreements”
Source: Petrobras Agrees to Pay More Than $850 Million for FCPA Violations (comunicado do Departamento de Justiça dos EUA) — U.S. Department of Justice, Sept. 27, 2018 · pages 1–2 of the statement · open original ↗
Official statement (primary) · full text examined · accessed on Oct. 24, 2026
Limitations: Copy of the statement in a third party's PDF (Skadden). The agreement with the MPF and the amount in reais actually paid in Brazil were not examined here.