Ex-billionaire Batista held in Rio

rio de janeiro - Brazilian businessman Eike Batista's Monday arrested immediately after returning to Brazil at the airport in Rio. The sixty Batista was five years ago, the richest man in the country and probably the seventh richest person in the world. Meanwhile, the bulk of his wealth is gone and Batista is suspected of money laundering and bribery. In 2015, Batista even acquired the nickname ' billionaire in the minus '' because he would have been a billion dollar debt.

Batista is short last week went to his villa in the south of Rio to the United States for its intended arrest. But he did know that at the weekend he returns to justify himself before the court and to ' to clean up and resolve. '

Justice is very interested in what Batista telling in the context of the investigation into a massive corruption scandal that Lava Jato (car wash) is called.