Odebrecht asks Brazil Supreme Court to silence Venezuela ex-prosecutor

Engineering group Odebrecht SA asked Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to threaten fines against Venezuela’s former chief prosecutor to stop her from divulging information from the company’s confidential plea bargain testimony. In December, Odebrecht and affiliated petrochemical company Braskem SA agreed to pay $3.5 billion in fines to settle a political bribery investigation with U.S., Brazilian and Swiss authorities. More…