Operation Car Wash Brazil's Institutionalized Crime and The Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History

A thrilling exploration into the involvement of Brazil’s public power in corruption schemes

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Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history. What they found ultimately uncovered a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation’s president.

Through engrossing first-hand testimony, Pontes and Anselmo recount the uphill battle faced by the Federal Police in apprehending Brazil’s white-collar criminals, this in a country where the war on drugs has become a convenient distraction for the politicians and businessmen extracting billions of dollars from the public purse.

A historical record that reads like a political police thriller, Operation Car Wash is also a warning to the world: it demonstrates how easily institutionalized crime can take root in any nation - and how difficult it can be to eradicate.