# Odebrecht–Car Wash leniency agreement

All judges :
| Operation Car Wash Operação Lava Jato ||
| (L–R, top to bottom:) Headquarters of Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro; Emblem of the Federal Police of Brazil; Judge Sergio Moro; Deltan Dallagnol with Rodrigo Janot; Federal Police in an operation; Odebrecht logo ||
| Country: | Brazil |
| Active: | 17 March 2014 – 1 February 2021 |
| Primary judge: | Sergio Moro Mar 2014 – Nov 2018 |
| Lead prosecutor: | Deltan Dallagnol Mar 2014 – Sept 2020 |
| All judges Judge: (Curitiba) Sergio Moro 17 Mar 2014 – 2 Nov 2018 Gabriela Hardt presiding as substitute 2019 to 6 Mar 2019 Luiz Antonio Bonat 6 Mar 2019 - 1 Feb 2021 Federal judge: (Rio de Janeiro) Marcelo Bretas (2015–2021) Federal judge: (Brasília) Vallisney de Souza Oliveira (2016–2021) Federal judge (Porto Alegre) Leandro Paulsen (2015–2021) João Pedro Gebran Neto (2015–2021) Judge: (Superior Court of Justice) Felix Fischer (2015–2021) Judge: (Supreme Federal Court) Teori Zavascki (2014–2017) Edson Fachin (2017–2021) ||
| Under investigation: | 429 individuals |
| Indicted: | 429 |
| Convicted: | 159 |
| Companies involved: | 18 |
| Countries involved: | at least 11 |
| Misappropriated Petrobras funds: | R$6.2 billion (US$2.5 billion$^{:16}$) |
| Reimbursement requested by Petrobras: | R$46.3 billion$^{:147}$ (c. US$9 billion) |
| Recovered funds: | R$3.28 billion$^{:17}$$^{:321}$ (US$912 million$^{:17}$) |
| Penalties paid by Petrobras: | US$682.6 million to Brazilian Government$^{:18}$$^{:17}$ US$85.3 million to US DoJ$^{:18}$$^{:17}$ US$85.3 million to US SEC$^{:18}$$^{:17}$ |
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The Odebrecht–Car Wash leniency agreement, also known in Brazil as the "end of the world plea deal" (delações do fim do mundo), was the leniency agreement signed between Odebrecht S.A. and the Public Prosecutor's Office (PGR) in December 2016, as part of Operation Car Wash. The agreement provided for the deposition of 78 of the contractor's executives, including the former president Marcelo Odebrecht, and his father, Emílio Odebrecht, which generated 83 investigations at the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
In March 2017, Attorney General Rodrigo Janot asked the Supreme Tribunal to withdraw the secrecy of the depositions. The following month, on 11 April, STF Minister Edson Fachin accepted the request of the A-G and withdrew the secrecy of investigations. On 12 April, federal judge Sergio Moro followed the same line as the Supreme Tribunal and withdrew the secrecy of denunciations involving people without foro privilegiado status from the jurisdiction of judges of first instance. Moro said in his order, "The judiciary should not be the guardian of shadowy secrets. Moreover, publicity prevents unlawful, regrettable leaks, which are difficult to control".
According to the lead prosecutor of Operation Car Wash, Deltan Dallagnol, the leniency agreement provided the "greatest refund in world history". Odebrecht and Braskem pleaded guilty and would pay fines of 3.5 billion dollars, the equivalent of 12 billion reals, 80 per cent of which would go to Brazil.
In 2018, the STF took from Lava Jato the so-called End of the World denunciation in which 415 politicians from 26 parties were mentioned, but merely one was convicted. It generated 270 investigations, but only five of them became criminal proceedings.
The signing of the plea bargain agreement resulted in several Operation Car Wash offshoots outside Brazil, especially in the Americas.