Friday, March 4, 2016

Rousseff says Senator allegations against her are revenge fruit – LUSA

the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, said Tuesday in Brasilia that the complaints addressed to it by the Amaral Delcídio senator is “an act of revenge.”

“the charges contained in the alleged plea bargaining of Amaral Delcídio are the result of an immoral and petty desire for revenge against those who do not defended him, and he could not have it defended the acts he committed,” he said.

Making a full defense of all charges senator, made public on Thursday, after the magazine Isto publish excerpts from an agreement made by Delcídio Amaral for the benefit of a reduced sentence, Dilma defended his innocence in the purchase of the Pasadena refinery.

“the prosecutor Rodrigo Janot determined the archiving of research participation of Petrobras Council members in illegal acts during the purchase of the Pasadena refinery why not it was possible to compute offense, “he recalled.

the oil company’s board was chaired by Dilma at the time there was the controversial purchase of this refinery, which had illegally diverted funds for the payment of bribes to employees of Petrobras.

the senator also said the head of the Brazilian state used its influence to avoid punishment contractors to name the minister Marcelo Navarro to the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ).

” Minister of the Supreme Ricardo Lewandowski has dismissed this complaint. The meeting I had with him in Portugal and the Minister of Justice has been done to address issues related to judicial officials, “he said.

Dilma also said that lacks any credibility to Delcídio statement on the closing of the CPI of the Bingos, which would have been made to favor the election campaign of President.

in addition to responding to the allegations of Senator, Brazilian President again expressed his “absolute nonconformity” with coercive detention of his predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who had already defended in a statement issued this afternoon.

Lula was obliged to testify to the Federal Police to explain receiving undue favors and receiving EUR 7.2 million (30 million reais) this morning.

According to the prosecution, these features come out of the coffers of Camargo Correa, Odebrecht, UTC, OAS, Queiroz Galvão and Andrade Gutierrez, companies are investigated in action clears the corruption of Petrobras.

the federal prosecutor Carlos Fernando dos Santos Lima, which is part of the Lava Jato working group in Curitiba, said that between 2011 and 2014 contractors have donated 20 million reais to Lula Institute.

Five of them would also have paid another 10 million reais by lectures given by former Brazilian President in the same period.

researchers suspect that these resources have been allocated to Lula to ensure favoring the interests of these companies in the Petrobras contracts.

// CYR JPS

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