Odebrecht case: From Latin America’s mega-scandal to the release of Manuel Baldizón and Alejandro Sinibaldi

A police operation at a car wash inside a Brazilian gas station helped uncover one of Latin America’s most complex bribery and money-laundering networks.

In 2014, the historic Lava Jato operation exposed systematic corruption linked to construction company Norberto Odebrecht across the region. The case became an international scandal, reaching beyond Brazil and drawing in political and business figures in several Latin American countries.

The article follows the Odebrecht case through the release of Manuel Baldizón and Alejandro Sinibaldi in Guatemala. The supplied excerpt introduces that trajectory but ends before describing the circumstances or timing of their release in greater detail.