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Mac Margolis

Lights, Camera ... Corruption! Netflix Does Brazil's Carwash Scandal

A new crime series misfires on what may be the world's biggest graft investigation.
Netflix offers up some Carwash swag.

Netflix offers up some Carwash swag.

Photographer: Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images

No sooner did Brazil's huge Carwash scandal and investigation come into the public eye in 2014 than it began to inspire a respectable dramatic oeuvre, including a soap opera and a stage play, a crowd-funded documentary, a feature film and most recently, an entire series streamed to more than 190 countries.

What else to expect from what may be the largest graft scheme in modern history? Brazilians have also taken some rightful pride in the historic cleanup that has chased financial crooks from palaces to tax havens, across the equator and into four continents.