SÃO PAULO—Brazilian police on Thursday were seeking to arrest Eike Batista, the former billionaire whose industrial empire collapsed in 2013, with prosecutors saying he had left the country and his lawyers saying he would cooperate with investigators.
Police raided the businessman’s Rio de Janeiro home early Thursday as part of an investigation into allegations Mr. Batista paid $16.5 million in bribes to the former governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Sérgio Cabral, while Mr. Cabral was in office from 2007 to 2014, a police…
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