美國對巴西國家石油展開賄賂調查

US authorities are investigating whether Petrobras or its employees were paid bribes, adding to the mounting domestic corruption probes facing the Brazilian state-controlled oil company, people familiar with the matter say.

知情人士表示，美國當局正在調查巴西國家石油公司(Petrobras)或其員工是否收受了賄賂，令這家在巴西國內受到諸多腐敗調查的巴西石油公司雪上加霜。

The US Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the company, whose American depositary receipts trade in New York, while the Securities and Exchange Commission is pursuing a civil investigation, these people say.

知情人士表示，美國司法部(DoJ)已對該公司發起刑事調查，美國證交會(SEC)也在尋求對其開展民事調查。該公司的美國存託憑證(ADR)在是在紐約上市交易的。

Brazil’s biggest company has become the target of investigations by the federal police and prosecutors that is emerging as one of the country’s biggest corruption cases in history. Many of the alleged problems occurred when President Dilma Rousseff was head of the company before taking office in 2011.

這家巴西最大公司已成爲聯邦警察與檢查機關的調查對象，這一案件正在成爲巴西曆史上最大的腐敗案之一。被控的許多問題發生在迪爾瑪•羅塞夫(Dilma Rousseff)擔任該公司掌舵人期間，羅塞夫後來於2011年上任巴西總統。

US authorities are looking into whether Petrobras or its employees, middlemen or contractors, violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, an anti-corruption statute that makes it illegal to bribe foreign officials to win or retain business, these people say.

上述知情人士表示，美國當局正在調查巴西國家石油公司或其員工、中間商或承包商，是否違反了《反海外腐敗法》(Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)。該法規定，賄賂外國官員以贏得或保住零售業務，是違法行爲。

Spokesmen for the DoJ and SEC declined to comment. Petrobras did not respond to requests for comment.

美國司法部和證交會發言人拒絕置評。巴西國家石油公司沒有迴應記者的置評請求。