By Ana Paula Candil ( May 25, 2018, 17:59 GMT | Insight) -- Since Odebrecht signed a $3.5 billion global settlement with US, Brazilian and Swiss anticorruption authorities in December 2016 after being ensnared in the huge "Lava Jato" corruption investigation, the construction company has intensified its compliance activities to improve its rules and implement new ones. Maria Cecilia Andrade, Odebrecht's antitrust, compliance and governmental affairs lawyer, told MLex in an interview that the Brazilian company is making efforts not only to implement the compliance program internally, but also to improve the business environment in the infrastructure sector.Since Odebrecht signed a $3.5 billion global settlement with US, Brazilian and Swiss anticorruption authorities in December 2016 after being ensnared in the huge "Lava Jato" corruption investigation, the construction company has intensified its compliance activities to improve its rules and implement new ones....
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