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The Bribery Division, an international investigation into Latin America's largest construction company, reveals fresh evidence of hundreds of millions of dollars in suspicious payments linked to major infrastructure projects. Brazilian multinational Odebrecht has been implicated in a cash-for-contracts scandal that the U.S. Department of Justice has described as the largest foreign bribery case in history. The Bribery Division investigation unveils dramatic new information in taking readers inside the belly of the beast: Odebrecht's Division of Structured Operations, a specialized unit created for the primary purpose of managing the company's graft. A team of more than 50 journalists across the Americas, led by ICIJ, examined more than 13,000 Odebrecht documents from a secret communication platform used by the Structured Operations unit. The team's sprawling expose revealed Odebrecht's cash-for-contracts operation was even bigger than the company had acknowledged to prosecutors and had involved prominent figures and massive public works projects not mentioned in the criminal cases or other official inquiries to date.