Brazil Company Illegally Funded 2010 Rousseff Campaign

A group of executives at Andrade Gutierrez said in a plea bargain deal that the country’s No. 2 construction firm gave illegal contributions to President Dilma Rousseff’s election campaign in 2010, Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported.

Andrade Gutierrez allegedly paid more than 5 million reais in expenses of her 2010 campaign through a fictitious service contract with a public relations firm, Folha reported, without saying how it obtained the information. Andrade Gutierrez and Rousseff’s press office declined to comment.

Rousseff’s lawyer Flavio Caetano didn’t comment on issues related to the 2010 campaign but added that her current mandate is safe. “There’s no legal chance of annulling a mandate in the case of proving irregularities in previous campaigns,” he told Bloomberg in a phone interview.

 Yet the revelations could be damaging for Rousseff as a corruption probe extends into its second year, rattling Brazil’s political and corporate establishment. Investigations in recent weeks have encroached on her ruling Workers’ Party and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the same time that she is dealing with the worst recession in over 100 years.

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  1. But since this was in her previous term she is in the clear?

    John Chadderdon Quest Offshore Office#: 281-491-5900 Direct#: 832-443-0239

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    1. You are correct. but if it was done in 2010 surely somebody will have done 2014. No matter which way you cut it does not look good for Dilma..

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