{"id":24448,"date":"2016-04-08T02:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/report-tells-of-graft-in-brazil-president-s-win\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T02:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T02:04:41","slug":"report-tells-of-graft-in-brazil-president-s-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/report-tells-of-graft-in-brazil-president-s-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Report tells of graft in Brazil president\u2019s win"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Bribe money at Petrobras went into President Dilma Rousseff\u2019 re-election campaign.}<\/p>\n

Bribe money from a giant corruption scheme at Brazilian state oil company Petrobras went into President Dilma Rousseff\u2019 re-election campaign coffers, a former CEO has told prosecutors, a report said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Folha de Sao Paulo daily quoted what it said was leaked testimony from Otavio Marques Azevedo, ex-CEO of Andrade Gutierrez, Brazil\u2019s second-largest construction company, who was arrested last June.<\/p>\n

Testifying as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors probing Petrobras corruption, Azevedo reportedly said that millions of dollars in legal donations to the 2014 Rousseff campaign were originally funded with money from bribes paid in connection to huge contracts handed to Andrade Gutierrez.<\/p>\n

Folha\u2019s report said that it was not clear whether the dirty money was paid into the accounts of Rousseff\u2019s re-election committee or to her Workers\u2019 Party.<\/p>\n

The report fuels a potentially explosive new front in the crisis engulfing Rousseff and Brazil\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

She is already facing impeachment on allegations that her government illegally masked budgetary shortfalls during her re-election year.<\/p>\n

VICTORY ANNULLED<\/p>\n

If the court finds Rousseff guilty on this, then her re-election victory would be annulled, meaning both she and her vice president would have to step down, followed by new elections.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say that for years under the presidency of Rousseff\u2019s predecessor and ally Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a group of powerful companies and politicians conspired in a pay-to-play scheme where bribes were given to win inflated contracts.<\/p>\n

Bribes went to executives at Petrobras and other state companies, influential politicians and also allegedly into political campaigns, including those of Rousseff and her narrowly defeated rival in 2014 Aecio Neves.<\/p>\n

The money allegedly ending up in Ms Rousseff\u2019s campaign originated in contracts won by Andrade Gutierrez at a Rio oil facility, a nuclear power station, and the huge Belo Monte hydroelectric dam complex, the report said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the impeachment of President Rousseff should go ahead, the representative for a congressional commission said on Wednesday, bringing the country\u2019s political crisis a step closer to a showdown.<\/p>\n

Mr Jovair Arantes, rapporteur for a special impeachment commission in the lower house of Congress, said he had concluded the \u201clegal admissibility\u201d of the case against the leftist president.<\/p>\n

The decision was given in a lengthy report that Arantes read aloud, live on national television, to the 65-member impeachment commission, sometimes interrupted by deputies shouting and arguing.<\/p>\n

Although Mr Arantes\u2019 decision was non-binding and mostly of symbolic value, it meant the opposition drew first blood just as an increasingly bitter battle to remove Brazil\u2019s first woman president from office gathers pace.<\/p>\n

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{Bribe money at Petrobras went into President Dilma Rousseff\u2019 re-election campaign.} Bribe money from a giant corruption scheme at Brazilian state oil company Petrobras went into President Dilma Rousseff\u2019 re-election campaign coffers, a former CEO has told prosecutors, a report said on Thursday. Folha de Sao Paulo daily quoted what it said was leaked testimony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[228],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-afp"],"bylines":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":71}],"contributors":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":71}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24448"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24448"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}