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Odebrecht Organization is a Brazilian conglomerate consisting of diversified businesses in the fields of engineering, construction, chemicals and petrochemicals. The company was founded in 1944 in Salvador da Bahia by Norberto Odebrecht, and is now present in South America, Central America, North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Its leading company is Norberto Odebrecht Construtora.
Odebrecht S.A. is a holding company for Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A., the biggest engineering and contracting company in Latin America, and Braskem S.A., the largest petrochemicals producer in Latin America and one of Brazil's five largest private-sector manufacturing companies. Odebrecht controls Braskem, the fifth largest in the world, with exports to 60 countries in all continents of the world. By revenue Braskem is the fourth largest petrochemical company in the Americas and the seventeenth in the world.
On 19 June 2015, Brazilian authorities arrested the CEO, Marcelo Odebrecht, in connection with their ongoing probe into bribes paid by the Brazilian oil giant, Petrobras. On 7 March 2016 he was sentenced to 19 years and 4 months jail, for paying over US$30 million in bribes to executives of Petrobras, in exchange for contracts and influence.
Odebrecht is a surname; notable people with this surname include:
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(1835–1912), German immigrant and Brazilian entrepreneur
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(1894–1962), Brazilian engineer
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(born 1984), German cyclist
- Job Odebrecht (1892–1982), German general
- Marcelo Odebrecht (born 1968), Brazilian entrepreneur
- Norberto Odebrecht (1920–2014), Brazilian construction engineer, founder of Odebrecht S.A.
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(1889–1945), German philosopher
- Viola Odebrecht (born 1983), German woman footballer
Odebrecht is a Brazilian company.
Odebrecht may also refer to:
- Odebrecht Foundation
- Norberto Odebrecht Construtora
- Odebrecht (surname)