List of scandals in Brazil

Historians believe that construction of the planned capital city of Brasília was systematically overpriced when built in the early 1960s under Juscelino Kubitschek presidency.

[2] Little to no evidence of corruption was made public during the military dictatorship era (1964–1985).

Recently, however, several cases have become increasingly public knowledge and have been reviewed in books including the journalist Elio Gaspari's series of historical analyses[3][page needed] and in the news.

[4][5] Cases ranged from smuggling whiskey and luxury clothes to outright extortion of companies by military-appointed governors (e.g., Haroldo Leon Peres [pt] in Paraná), who illegally favored their companies in contractor licensing (e.g. Antonio Carlos Magalhães and Magnesita) and used public money to save their own companies from bankruptcy (e.g., Paulo Maluf and his wife Sylvia Lutfalla Maluf [pt] in the Lutfalla case [pt]).

British documents pointed out a number of other cases which were suppressed in the 1970s referring to overpriced purchase of UK equipment for construction of ships in Brazil.