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Salaries and other employee expenses (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Disclosure of employee benefits [Abstract] |
Disclosure of employee benefits [text block] |
|  | December 31, 2017 |  | December 31, 2016 |  | December 31, 2015 |
Wages and salaries |  |  | 16,191 |  |  | 16,132 |  |  | 15,500 |
Payroll taxes |  |  | 2,629 |  |  | 2,244 |  |  | 2,264 |
Personnel benefits |  |  | 5,442 |  |  | 3,090 |  |  | 8,613 |
Share–based payments |  |  | 3,391 |  |  | 3,730 |  |  | 4,058 |
Total |  |  | 27,653 |  |  | 25,196 |  |  | 30,435 |

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