The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Connecticut-based trading house Freepoint Commodities over whether payments to employees of Brazil's state-run oil company broke U.S. laws, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters this week.
The criminal probe, which is being led by prosecutors in Washington, complements a separate, ongoing bribery investigation into the company by authorities in Brazil, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters., or Petrobras, for a period of roughly seven years ending in 2018. The Justice Department is also probing those alleged payments and whether they may have breached U.S. antibribery law, the sources said. One of the people said the U.S.
Probes do not necessarily indicate wrongdoing and it was unclear whether any charges would be brought in either jurisdiction. While commodity trading houses are not typically household names, they hold immense power. The combined annual revenue of the world's top five commodity traders is roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of Saudi Arabia. They trade over 20 million barrels of oil products annually.
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