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Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favourable land rulings

Listed by Brazil’s National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) as one of the largest cases of land grabbing in Brazil, the Condomínio Cachoeira do Estrondo Agribusiness venture occupies a total area of more than 444,000 hectares (1 million acres) in western Bahia state — an area larger than the U.S. state of Rhode Island.  Estrondo has a long history of conflict with traditional communities, has been fined by Brazil’s environmental protection agency for illegal deforestation, and…
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