SAO PAULO: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro awarded a Brazilian construction giant at the heart of a huge corruption scandal across Latin America almost $4 billion for public works in exchange for campaign donations, the newspaper Estado reported on Sunday (Monday in Manila).

The payments to Odebrecht came to light as part of a Brazilian investigation.

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