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Mensalão Scandal
The Mensalão scandal ( pt, Escândalo do Mensalão, ) was a major parliamentary vote-buying scandal by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration that threatened to bring down his government in 2005. ''Mensalão'' is a neologism, a variant of the word for "big monthly payment" (''salário mensal'' or ''mensalidade''). The scandal broke on June 6, 2005 when Brazilian deputy Roberto Jefferson ( Brazilian Labour Party) told the ''Folha de S.Paulo'' newspaper that the ruling Workers' Party (PT) had paid a number of deputies 30,000 reais (around US$12,000 at the time) a month to vote for legislation favored by the ruling party. The funds allegedly came from state-owned companies' advertising budgets, funneled through an advertising agency owned by Marcos Valério. The investigation then implicated members of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, Democrats, Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and seven other political parties also involved. Many key advisers to Lula resigned, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Dirceu
José Dirceu (; born March 16, 1946), in full José Dirceu de Oliveira e Silva, is a former Brazilian politician. His political rights were suspended by the Brazilian House of Representatives and he was found guilty by the Brazilian Supreme Court of active corruption and conspiracy in two separate lawsuits. He participated in an armed revolutionary group after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, and was exiled in 1969. He returned in 1980 and was politically active, culminating in a post as chief-of-staff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration from 2003 until his resignation due to corruption charges. Early life Dirceu moved to São Paulo in 1961 and in 1966 joined the ''Ala Marighella'', later called the ALN, a revolutionary armed group linked to the Brazilian Communist Party. In 1968 Dirceu, known as "Daniel", was the leader of the State Union of Students (UEE). As a consequence, Dirceu was arrested on October 12, 1968, during the 30th Congress of the National Student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmar Serraglio
Osmar José Serraglio (born 23 May 1948) is a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, and politician affiliated to the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB). Is current Federal Deputy for the state of Paraná and was minister of Justice and Public Security In Norway, the Minister of Justice and Public Security is the head of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police and a member of Government of Norway. The current Justice Minister is Emilie Enger Mehl. Until 1 January 2012 the post w ... from March to May 2017. He was offered the office of the Ministry of Transparency, Supervision and CGU, but he declined, going back to his seat in the Chamber. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Serraglio, Osmar 1948 births Living people Brazilian people of Italian descent Centro Universitário Curitiba alumni 20th-century Brazilian lawyers Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians Ministers of Justice of Brazil People from Erechim Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delcídio Do Amaral
Delcídio do Amaral Gomez (born February 2, 1955) is a Brazilian politician. He worked at Shell and was nominated to Petrobras's Internacional Directory by president Fernando Henrique Cardoso where he worked until 2001 when he left Petrobras and start his relation with the Workers'Part Before his relation with Workers' party, Delcidio indicated a new director to Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Nestor Cervero. He represented Mato Grosso do Sul in the Federal Senate from 2003 to 2016 and before he was removed from office, he was the high-representative of the Workers' Party in the Brazilian Senate. He was the speaker of his party in the Senate and the head of the Senate's economic affairs committee. Amaral was arrested in November 2015 for allegedly taking kickbacks from Petrobras. A Supreme Court judge, Teori Zavascki, said he authorised the arrest after seeing evidence that Amaral had planned the flight of Petrobras's former international director, , in return for his silence. Ceveró ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delúbio Soares
Delúbio Soares de Castro (Buriti Alegre, November 6, 1955) is a Brazilian trade unionist who has had a long professional association with the Brazilian Workers Party (PT). He is particularly noted for his involvement in the mensalão scandal. Background A native of Goiás, Soares graduated with a degree in mathematics from the Catholic University of Goias. He is married to Monica Valente. Career Soares has been active in Brazilian politics since the 1970s, when he worked for the Amnesty Movement in Goiânia (GO). During this period, he began to teach mathematics in public schools in Goiás and to participate in the coordination of teacher's strikes. He helped found the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), at which he held the posts of Secretary of Trade Union Policy and Secretary of Finance, and the Trade Union of Education Workers of Goiás. He was also a coordinator of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's presidential campaigns in 1989 and 1998. He was a member of the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilian Intelligence Agency
The Brazilian Intelligence Agency ( pt, Agência Brasileira de Inteligência, ABIN) is the main intelligence agency in Brazil. ABIN's mission is to ensure that the Federal Executive has access to knowledge related to the security of the State and society, such as those involving foreign defense, foreign relations, internal security, socioeconomic development and scientific-technological development. A successor organization to the Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI), it formed during the government of Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco in the mid-1960s. In an attempt to bring military intelligence agencies under the control of the civilian-led government as part of the process of democratization that began in Brazil in 1985, President Fernando Collor de Mello replaced the SNI with the short-lived (1990–94) Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos (SAE) or Strategic Affairs Secretariat. However, despite the dismissal of 144 SNI officers, the agency continued to be dominated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Correios
Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (''Brazilian Post and Telegraph Corporation''), abbreviated as ECT, also known as Correios, is a state-owned company that operates the national postal service of Brazil since the seventeenth century. The company created and manages the Brazilian postal code system known as Código de Endereçamento Postal. It also provides e-commerce platform (''CorreiosNet Shopping''), banking (''Banco Postal'') acting as proxy of Banco do Brasil, Boleto bill payment collection and express mail service ''Sedex'', with its international service network reaching more than 220 countries worldwide. It is the largest employer in Brazil with more than 109,000 own employees and outsourced, being the only company to be present in all municipalities in the country, with a wide network of owned and franchised units. The company is fully owned by the Federal Government of Brazil and subordinated to the Ministry of Communications (MCom). History The Post Offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Freire (politician)
Roberto João Pereira Freire (20 April 1942) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician. Freire was born in Recife. He is the president of Cidadania, former Federal Deputy, and former Minister of Culture appointed by president Michel Temer. He resigned from the office on 18 May 2017 Car Wash Scandal Roberto Freire resigned as minister, due to his involvement with the crimes found in the Operation Car Wash. The biggest implicated company, Odebrecht kept an entire department to coordinate the payment of bribe to politicians. In the Car Wash Operation, officers seized several electronic spreadsheets linking the payments to nicknames. Every corrupt politician received a nickname based on physical characteristics, public trajectory, personal infos, owned cars/boats, origin place or generic preferences. Roberto Freire's nickname was 'Curitiba', alusing the city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Socialist Party (Brazil)
Cidadania () is a Brazilian political party. It was originally founded as the Popular Socialist Party ( pt, Partido Popular Socialista, PPS) by members of the former Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), as a centre-left social democratic and democratic socialist party. Despite its left-wing aligment, PPS moved to be opposition against the Workers' Party since 2004, forming alliances with center-right parties, in particular the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), and supporting the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. Later the party's National Convention adopted the new naming in March 2019, and it was later approved by the Superior Electoral Court that September. The party then began moving towards a more social liberal positions akin to the third way. History It was founded in 1992 after the main body of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) decided to reinvent itself as a social democratic party following the collapse of the Soviet Union. A minority faction of the Brazilian Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Paulo Cunha
João Paulo Cunha (born 1958) is a deputy of the Brazilian Workers Party from São Paulo and was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies in 2003. He left this position in 2005. In August 2012, whilst running the Brazilian municipal election in Osasco Osasco () is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in São Paulo State, Brazil, located in the Greater São Paulo and ranking 5th in population among São Paulo municipalities. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, ..., Cunha was forced to pull out after he was convicted of corruption and money laundering. According to the accusation he received $24,000 (£15,000) from a businessman who was awarded a contract with Congress. References Workers' Party (Brazil) politicians Living people Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) Brazilian politicians convicted of corruption 1958 births {{Brazil-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil)
The Public Prosecutor's Office ( pt, Ministério Público, lit. "Public Ministry", also usually referred as "MP") is the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors at both the federal (') and state level (''Ministério Público Estadual''). It operates independently from the three branches of government. It was once referred by constitutional lawyer and former president Michel Temer as a "Fourth Branch". The Constitution of 1988 divides the functions of the Public Prosecutor's Office into three different bodies: the '' Public Procurator's Office'', the '' Public Defender's Office'' and the Public Prosecutor's Office itself, each one of them an independent body. In addition to that, the new Constitution created the ''Courts of Account'', also autonomous in its functions. There are three levels of public prosecutors, according to the jurisdiction of the courts before which they perform their duties. There are the federal prosecutors (') who bring cases before judges in low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miro Teixeira
Miro Teixeira (born May 27, 1945) is a Brazilian lawyer, politician and journalist. Background Teixeira graduated in Law at the Candido Mendes University. He operates from a political base in Rio de Janeiro. Political career He began his career with the Brazilian Democratic Movement (Movimento Democrático Brasileiro), an opposition party to the military regime. At the start of the 1980s, together with Tancredo Neves he helped in the founding of the Partido Popular in a centrist initiative to balance the Brazil political landscape. Afterwards, he allied himself with Leonel Brizola and entered the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) where he remained for two decades. In 1996 he was a candidate for the local district of Rio and achieved fourth place. In 2002, he supported Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Brazilian Presidential election and was nominated to be Minister of Communications. During his term as minister, he broke with PDT and entered the Workers' Party. In 2004 he was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
