Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil

Brazil’s BNDES is the largest development bank in the world, with annual disbursements of US$50 billion.  It’s enormous, poorly managed pay outs to Amazon dam projects have fuelled mass corruption.  This is Part 1 of a 5 part series profiling the bank. The Lava Jato (Car Wash) scandal has rocked Brazil and its presidency.  Beginning […]