On 10 August 2016, in an offshoot of Operation Pripyat, the Federal Police launched Operation Brotherhood, which resulted in the arrest of Samir Assad, who was accused, along with his brother and nine others of setting up a "caixa 2" slush fund scheme of contractors that allowed the payment of almost R$ 178 million ($) in bribes to managers of Eletronuclear between 2008 and 2013.