Humberto Costa (born July 7, 1957) is a Brazilian medical doctor and politician.

Humberto Costa was the minister of health and personally nominated most of the officials who were arrested in the operation.

[2] Humberto Costa was indicted for receiving R$590,000 (US$200,000) in bribes for favoring overbilling in a contract signed by Odebretch with Petrobras.

[3] The biggest implicated company, Odebrecht kept an entire department to coordinate the payment of bribe to politicians.

In the Car Wash Operation, officers seized several electronic spreadsheets linking the payments to nicknames.

Every corrupt politician received a nickname based on physical characteristics, public trajectory, personal infos, owned cars/boats, origin place or generic preferences.

Humberto Costa's nickname was 'Dracula', referring the "Operation Vampire" when he allegedly embezzled funds from public blood banks.

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