[SAO PAULO] Brazilian prosecutors pressed charges on Friday against two people for an alleged scheme to obtain confidential market information from Petrobras to benefit AP Moller-Maersk, the world's largest shipping company. Read more at The Business Times.
Andersen allegedly inflated shipping contract prices and transferred the proceeds to Maersk commercial representative Wanderley Gandra, who acted as a financial operator for the scheme, the prosecutors said.
Gandra, according to prosecutors, then sent some of the money to Paulo Roberto Costa, a former Petrobras top executive, who supplied confidential information on the state oil company's shipping needs back to Maersk, the statement said.Costa was arrested in 2014 and was the first of more than 100 people who entered a plea deal with prosecutors.
A judge must still decide whether to start a criminal case against Andersen and Gandra or drop the charges. The alleged crimes relate to the period 2006 to 2014, the prosecution statement said. Andersen left Maersk in 2017, according to his LinkedIn page. Maersk said it takes the"allegations very seriously and remains committed to cooperating with the authorities". Petrobras has been collaborating with officials since 2014 and will continue to do so, the company said in a written response.Representatives of the Danish company met with Brazilian investigators as far back as 2014 in relation to its dealings with Petrobras during the early stages of the corruption investigation.
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