Brazilian federal police were seeking to arrest 15 people on Tuesday as part of the corruption investigation centered on state-run oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PETR4.SA), police and federal prosecutors said.
Tuesday’s operation, codenamed “Xepa”, uncovered a bribe-payment scheme led by Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL], Latin America’s largest engineering and construction conglomerate, police said in a statement.
It is the 26th raid in the two-year-old corruption probe that has put top executives and political leaders in jail and has raised chances of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in coming months.
Odebrecht and other major engineering and construction companies have had a high profile in the graft and influence-peddling scandal at Petrobras known as “Operation Car Wash.”
Brazil Energy Insight 
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