MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Son of Lula da Silva's offices raided as part of investigation into tax fraud
The company LFT Marketing Esportivo belongs to Luis Claudio Lula da Silva, son of the former Brazilian president from 2003 to 2010. Brazilian police on Monday raided the offices of a company belonging to a son of former president Lula da Silva as part of an investigation into tax fraud. The raid was part of a broader operation involving about 100 agents who descended on offices in the cities of Sao Paulo, Piaui and Maranho armed with arrest warrants and orders to seize documents and accounting records.
“We can confirm that in the offices LFT Marketing Esportivo a search and seizure was carried out by federal police in Sao Paulo, but no arrests were made” a police official said.
The company belongs to Luis Claudio Lula da Silva, son of the former Brazilian president from 2003 to 2010.
Brazil has been rocked this year by a massive corruption scandal at state oil giant Petrobras during the administrations of Lula and his successor President Dilma Rousseff.
That scandal involves bribes and high-level political payoffs paid by outside contractors who benefitted by winning inflated Petrobras contracts.
However Monday's raid was aimed at a different scheme by companies to evade tax-related fines that reportedly cost the treasury $5.9 billion.
A police statement said its investigation indicated bribes were paid to manipulate cases and judgments heard by an administrative council in charge of imposing tax-related fines.
Those involved in the scheme were also alleged to have negotiated tax breaks for companies in the auto industry, the police said.
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Read all commentsLike father like son then?
Oct 27th, 2015 - 06:47 pm 0Be a bit difficult NOT to fall into thievery in Brazil, the rest of the PT are doing it anyway.
1 ChrisR
Oct 27th, 2015 - 08:23 pm 0Thank you for exonerating him, as you must also really believe its a politically driven fishing expedition.
“Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been exonerated of all responsibility in the Petrobras scandal in a report released this Monday by the parliamentary commission in charge of the investigation.”
www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazilian-President-Rousseff-Exonerated-in-Petrobras-Scandal-20151019-0036.html
@ 2 Terence Hill
Oct 28th, 2015 - 04:10 am 0TeleSur ????????????? really Terence ? Really?
I did expect better from you.
TeleSur:
” Nueva Televisora del Sur, C.A. is a public company which has various Latin American governments as its sponsors. Its sponsors are the governments of Argentina (20%), Bolivia (5%), Cuba (19%), Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay (10%) and Venezuela (51%).”
(just google it!)
Every single 'sponsor' is a ”Bolivarian ' State...
Pardon me if I just dismiss any comment from you in future...
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