Former Brazil Billionaire Batista Hit With 30-Year Sentence
- Convicted of paying $16.6 million to get government contracts
- Energy startups once made Batista Brazil’s richest person
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Eike Batista, formerly Brazil’s richest man, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in connection with the sprawling Carwash corruption probe.
Batista was convicted of paying $16.6 million to Rio de Janeiro’s former governor to facilitate contracts with the state government, according to a sentence published on the website for Rio’s judicial system. Batista’s lawyer Fernando Martins said in an email that he will appeal. Batista is currently under house arrest and Rio’s former governor, Sergio Cabral, is in prison.