Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday presented formal charges against Jorge Zelada, the former head of state-run oil firm Petrobras’ international division, and five others, saying they favored U.S. company Vantage Drilling in a rig contract.
The most recent charges presented in Brazil’s largest-ever corruption scandal included money laundering and corruption, and Zelada will stand trial with dozens of other engineering tycoons and former Petrobras executives if a judge accepts them.
One of the six charged by the prosecutor was Hsin Chi Su, chief executive of Taiwanese shipping firm TMT.
The federal prosecutor’s office in the southern city of Curitiba said in a statement that Su and the others paid bribes of $31 million to Zelada, other ex-Petrobras officials, and Brazil’s PMBD political party.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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