BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, former president of Brazil, is facing additional corruption and money laundering charges for allegedly receiving about $22 million in bribes related to the Petrobras scandal.
Brazil's Federal Public Prosecutor on Thursday said the Odebrecht conglomerate, founded by Norberto Odebrecht who died in 2014, paid Lula about $22 million in bribes to secure eight contracts through Petrobras, a semi-public oil and gas company. Lula also allegedly received land worth nearly $4 million linked to the Lula Institute.