Operation Car Wash Av Jorge Pontes, Marcio Anselmo

<p><b>A <i>Financial Times</i> Book to Read in 2022</b><br><i><br>Operation Car Wash</i> is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation’s President.<br><br>Through engrossing first-hand testimony, Pontes and Anselmo recount the uphill battle faced by the Federal Police in apprehending Brazil’s white-collar criminals, in a country where the war on drugs has become a convenient distraction for the politicians and businessmen extracting billions of dollars from the public purse.<br><br>A historical record that reads like a political police thriller, <i>Operation Car Wash</i> is also a warning to the world: demonstrating how easily institutionalized crime can take root in a nation, and how difficult it can be to eradicate.</p>