Brazilian court accepts Sembmarine's complaint against EJA's former president

This follows after charges of money laundering were filed to Martin Cheah Kok Choon and Guilherme Esteves de Jesus.

Sembcorp Marine (SCM) has announced that the Federal Justice Court of Curitiba in Brazil has accepted the complaint offered by the prosecutor’s office in Paraná against Guilherme Esteves de Jesus (GDJ) for money laundering and the ex-employee Martin Cheah Kok Choon for money laundering, an SGX filing revealed.

This follows after the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) charged Cheah, the ex-president of SCM’s Brazil unit Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA), with money laundering and corruption. 

GDJ was also charged as he is connected to companies whom the firm’s subsidiaries have engaged with as consultants in Brazil, in connection with certain drilling rig construction contracts entered into by subsidiaries of SCM with Sete Brasil in 2012. 

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