*Research shows that U.S. applies lighter to its companies accused of committing corruption offenses
*Brazilian companies paid the largest fines in the history of the U.S. anti-corruption law
*Brazilian economy continues to grow globally despite U.S. attempts to slow it down
*Brazilian companies paid the largest fines in the history of the U.S. anti-corruption law
*Brazilian economy continues to grow globally despite U.S. attempts to slow it down
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00:00In Brazil, an investigation reveals that the use of U.S. anti-corruption law was an instrument
00:05of geopolitical dispute, especially against companies based in the global South.
00:10More details in the following report.
00:14The U.S. Department of Justice announced an investigation against the Swedish aircraft
00:19manufacturer Saab in connection with a contract with the Brazilian government in 2014,
00:25when Dilma Rousseff, the current president of the New BRICS Development Bank,
00:29was president of the country. The agreement resulted in the purchase of 36 Swedish
00:34Gripen fighter jets for $4.5 billion, which today are the property of the Brazilian Air Force.
00:42President Lula considered the action to be part of a hegemonous posture of the United States.
00:47Comrade Dilma bought an airplane that was more economical, cheaper, and the maintenance cost
00:58less. It is a plane of a group of countries. It is Swedish with the participation of England
01:04and other countries. I sincerely believe that the request for information from the United States
01:09is an interference by the United States in something from another country.
01:17An investigation by Arthur Pinheiro de Azevedo Bonzato shows that the U.S. applies
01:23lighter fines to U.S. companies accused of committing corruption offenses,
01:27in a strategy to boost U.S. industry and destabilize competing markets by attacking
01:32up-and-coming economies.
01:36A more recent cutback would be applied more rigorously in the countries of the global South,
01:41especially in the BRICS, because of the geopolitical issue.
01:47The BRICS are a coalition that is making a certain stand against U.S. hegemony,
01:54mainly in the institutions of Bretton Woods and the World Bank.
02:03The thesis reveals that with the help of Lava Jato, Brazilian companies paid the largest fines
02:08in the history of the U.S. anti-corruption law, the FCPA. At the top of the list of countries
02:14targeted by the U.S. legal actions are China, Brazil and India, countries that make up the BRICS.
02:23The Brazilian case is striking because of the amount of the fines,
02:26but there are many Chinese companies that are affected.
02:30Even China has been expressing in its diplomatic documents that it perceives the nature of
02:35competition control based on the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the U.S. anti-corruption law.
02:41It would be a geopolitical strategy.
02:50Although there is corruption of these companies as a structural phenomenon of capitalism,
02:55especially when we are talking about large conglomerates, but there is a certain
02:59selectivity in the sense of instrumentalizing corruption to harm certain companies.
03:04On October 22, Brazil will participate in the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia.
03:10A month later, it will host the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where announcements are expected on
03:16the country's entry into the Chinese global logistic circuit called the Belt and Road.