Joesley Batista
| Joesley Mendonça Batista | |
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| Born |
Joesley Mendonça Batista 8 December 1972 Formosa, Goias, Brazil |
| Citizenship | Brazilian |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Organization | JBS S.A. |
| Spouse(s) | Ticiana Villas Boas (2012-present) |
| Children | Joesley Filho |
| Relatives | Wesley Batista (brother) |
Joesley Batista (born 8 December 1972) is a Brazilian businessman. He is responsible for the expansion and internationalization process of JBS S.A., the largest meat-packing company in the world, and one of the main agribusiness companies in Brazil.
He serves as chairman of JBS S.A.. Listed in 2016 among the 70 main billionaires of Brazil by Forbes magazine.
In July 2016, Batista was included as a suspect in the investigations of Operation Car Wash. The Brazilian Federal Police charged him for alleged bribes made by his company, JBS S.A., to the former president of the Brazilian parliament Eduardo Cunha. The bribes were paid for the liberation of resources from the FI-FGTS.
On May 17, 2017, the newspaper O Globo published that Batista provided recordings made on March 7, 2017, of a dialog between he and the Brazilian president Michel Temer, where Batista represents that he was paying for the silence of Eduardo Cunha, who is currently in jail, and former target in the investigation. The news resulted in some protests and calls for Temer's resignation, with the Brazilian stock market also facing a drop. On May 19, 2017, JBS admitted to paying bribes to the three Brazilian presidents Michel Temer, Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spanning the previous 14 years. All three presidents denied accepting bribes. However, he has material evidence of an audio recording catching president Temer green-lighting the Batistas to pay a monthly allowance to former House Speaker, Eduardo Cunha in exchange for his silence. JBS told prosecutors they had paid a total of $123 million in bribes to Brazilian politicians in recent years. Also Batista is said to have recorded senator and former presidential candidate Aecio Neves of a centre-right party requesting two million reais in bribes. The federal police filmed the payment to the senator’s cousin. The money was then tracked to a bank account of a company belonging to Zeze Perrella, a PSDB senator from Minas Gerais. To the press the former head of CVM referred to testimony that asserted JBS had bribed 1,829 politicians. Temer alleged JBS doctored the recording of him talking to Joesley Batista to make money from the scandal through trading shares, and accused the Batista of insider trading. JBS denied illegal shares.
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