How Money Launderer’s Testimony Helped Jail Top Rivals: Timeline
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Alberto Youssef, the confessed money launderer at the center of Brazil’s biggest-ever corruption probe, has been arrested at least nine times since the 1980s.
A serial plea-bargainer, Youssef has routinely testified against other “doleiros,” or black-market currency dealers, in exchange for reduced sentences. Along the way, that enabled him to tighten his grip on Brazil’s black market, the federal police say.