RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian federal police on Thursday targeted the former chief executive officer of state-controlled oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA, Aldemir Bendine, as part of a corruption probe, they said in a statement.
Police served three prison warrants and 11 search and seizure warrants, the statement said, without specifying whether those applied to Bendine.
Investigators suspect a group of people including Bendine, who was also the chief executive officer for Banco do Brasil SA, received 3 million reais in illegal payments from engineering group Odebrecht SA.
An emailed request for comments to Bendine's lawyers was not immediately answered.