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Brazil: More corruption charges filed against Lula

The prosecutors are charging Lula, his nephew, and Odebrecht:

Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva Faces New Corruption Charges. Prosecutors say he used influence to get loans for construction company Odebrecht in kickback scheme

A judge in Brasília would have to accept the charges for Mr. da Silva to face trial. He is already a defendant in two other federal cases on charges of attempted obstruction of justice, corruption and money laundering in connection with a sprawling embezzlement scheme at the state-run oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA, known as Petrobras.

Prosecutors on Monday said Mr. da Silva arranged loans from the country’s development bank, known as BNDES, to help Odebrecht SA win public works projects in the African nation of Angola. In return, Odebrecht allegedly paid bribes of more than 30 million reais ($9.3 million), funneled mostly through a firm owned by Mr. da Silva’s nephew, Taiguara Rodrigues dos Santos, according to documents released Monday by prosecutors.
For decades the Left has maintained that Lula, while heading one of the most corrupt countries in the world, was not personally corrupt, yet another lie.

More and more evidence keeps turning up showing that he is.

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  1. Under capitalism, the rich become powerful. Under socialism, the powerful become rich. (I think I heard this from Dennis Prager, but I’m not totally certain about who first said it.)

  2. Yes, these self-appointed communist saviors of the poor don’t mind having a swiss bank acccount or two. The Venezuelans will never recover the billions stolen by the Chavistas and we would all like to see what the Castros have stashed away. At least Brazil took these people down before they could dismantle the country’s democracy like they have done elsewhere. And, of course, it is all a capitalist, imperialist, right-wing, CIA, bourgeois, lizard people plot like everything else.