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Rio de Janeiro - Brazil's Petrobras will receive cash recovered by Brazilian authorities as a result of their investigation of contract-fixing, bribery and political kickbacks at the state-run oil company, court officials said in a statement on Wednesday.

The federal court in Curitiba, where the investigation is based, has recovered 140m reais ($45m) from Pedro Barusco, a former executive at Petrobras' services division.

The division managed contracts for large infrastructure projects such as refineries, production ships and fertilizer factories.

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