Halister News

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil has recovered about $85 million of more than $100 million under investigation in money laundering probe named “Efficiency”, police and prosecutors said at press conference in Rio de Janeiro Thursday.

• Police have reached out to Interpol to find Batista
• No confirmation Batista is on the run, or where he is
• Batista’s lawyer has indicated the billionaire will turn himself in: Police
• Some of $85m still abroad: prosecutors
• Former billionaire Eike Batista allegedly paid former Rio governor Sergio Cabral bribes
• Payment was allegedly laundered through transactions including a gold mine purchase, and Petrobras, Ambev and Vale shares
• Evidence was collected through police searches and witness testimony
• Police still looking for Batista to carry out preventative arrest