Brazil high court convicts top aides of Lula da Silva for ‘Mensalao’ corruption scandal

Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 08:23 UTC

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Brazil's Supreme Court convicted three top aides of former president Lula da Silva of graft related to a vote-buying scheme in Congress. Lula's ex-chief of staff Jose Dirceu was found guilty by six of the 10 judges in connection with the scheme that ran from 2002 to 2005 during the popular president's first term, a court spokesman said. Read full article

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ChrisR
Lula says 'it wasn't me', 'I was lied to by my senior people, the people I know and trust, who would have thought it'?

Anybody with half-a-brain, which lets him out for a start by the looks of this.

What a pity that Dilma has had all this corruption to deal with as well as running the country. 77% approval rating. Disgusting. It should be nearer 90% compared to the old twat Lula.

How lucky Brasil are in having a competent President when you think of all the rubbish elsewhere in LatAm:

TMBOA / Venezuela / Ecuador / Colombia / Bolivia / Cuba / Uruguay, etc. etc.
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