Brazil: party treasurer in power tried for corruption in the scandal Petrobras
Le Monde.fr avec AFP |
The treasurer of the Workers Party (PT, left) in power in Brazil and 26 other defendants will be tried for corruption and money laundering in connection with the investigation into the corruption scandal surrounding the oil company Petrobras announced Monday, March 23 Brazilian justice.
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Joao Vaccari appear free, decided by the judge in the case in Curitiba.Additional trials in other parts of the business and other stakeholders will take place thereafter. The court accused of receiving funds from fraudulent contracts Petrobras and have them recorded as having been electoral donations.
Vast network of corruption
Treasurer President's party Dilma Rousseff was indicted last week on the basis of evidence gathered under the "Lava Jato" operation (auto cleaning), the name of the investigation into the vast network of corruption involving the first company in Brazil and many construction companies.
According to investigators, the network - made up of businessmen, company managers and policy - has turned in a decade up to four billion, intended primarily to finance the parties of the center-left coalition in power.
The PT has again Monday rejected charges hanging over his treasurer. He has "participated in any system for receiving of bribes or illegal funds to the PT,"repeated the party in a statement. One of the other accused committed for trial Renato de Souza Duque, former director of Petrobras services, key player of the file, according to other actors who have agreed to cooperate with justice in exchange for reduced sentences.
Fifty policies in question
According to the pattern revealed there is more than one year by investigators, public works companies were paying for bribes to the directors of Petrobras in exchange for contracts. These cash flows opaque, once white, was supporting the men and political parties, directors using personally in passing - we found such high value tables M. Duque and another director had placed a hundred million dollars in Switzerland.
The bulk of the charges involves PT, founded by former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), and two other parties in the governing coalition, the PMDB and the Progressive Party, among others. Fifty policies are involved, including the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate.
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