By Tatiana Bautzer and Guillermo Parra-Bernal
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - JBS SA (SA:JBSS3), the world's largest meatpacker, and its controlling family have engaged Banco Bradesco SA's investment banking unit to work on a plan to dispose of several assets in the wake of a corruption scandal in Brazil, three people with direct knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.
Members of Brazil's billionaire Batista family, which own about 42 percent of JBS, are looking for ways to raise cash after facing prosecutors' demands they pay an 11 billion-real fine ($3.4 billion) as part of a leniency deal that is still being negotiated, one of the people said.