美国对巴西国家石油展开贿赂调查

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，美国当局正在调查巴西国家石油公司(Petrobras)或其员工是否收受了贿赂，令这家在巴西国内受到诸多腐败调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，美国司法部(DoJ)已对该公司发起刑事调查，美国证交会(SEC)也在寻求对其开展民事调查。该公司的美国存托凭证(ADR)在是在纽约上市交易的。

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.

这家巴西最大公司已成为联邦警察与检查机关的调查对象，这一案件正在成为巴西历史上最大的腐败案之一。被控的许多问题发生在迪尔玛•罗塞夫(Dilma Rousseff)担任该公司掌舵人期间，罗塞夫后来于2011年上任巴西总统。

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，美国当局正在调查巴西国家石油公司或其员工、中间商或承包商，是否违反了《反海外腐败法》(Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)。该法规定，贿赂外国官员以赢得或保住零售业务，是违法行为。

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

美国司法部和证交会发言人拒绝置评。巴西国家石油公司没有回应记者的置评请求。