Swiss file charges in Petrobras-Odebrecht corruption scandal

Swiss prosecutors said Tuesday that they have filed their first indictment in investigations related to the big Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petrobras, charging a suspect with complicity in the bribery of foreign public officials and with money laundering.

The statement from the Swiss attorney general’s office didn’t identify the “financial intermediary,” saying only that he is a Swiss-Brazilian dual citizen. It said that proceedings against him were opened in October 2015 and that it cooperated with Brazilian and Portuguese prosecutors.