Reports from Brazil say engineering giant Odebrecht has agreed to pay nearly two billion euros in fines for its role in the country’s biggest corruption scandal.<br /><br /> Prosecutors have accused the company of overcharging state firms for contracts and paying bribes to politicians. As many as 200 lawmakers have been implicated.<br /><br /> Earlier this year Odebrecht’s chief executive was jailed for 19 years for paying 28 million euros in bribes to executives of the state oil firm Petrobras.<br /><br /> Now almost another 80 directors and staff are said to have joined a plea deal described as the world’s largest.<br /><br /> Neither the company nor the prosecutor’s office has confirmed that any agreement has been signed.<br />
