{"id":3948,"date":"2017-09-07T16:20:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anticorr.media\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2017-09-08T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T09:50:18","slug":"eks-prezidentov-brazilii-obvinili-v-sozdanii-opg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anticorr.media\/en\/eks-prezidentov-brazilii-obvinili-v-sozdanii-opg\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Corruption Case Ensnares Ex-Presidents da Silva and Rousseff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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S\u00c3O PAULO, Brazil \u2014\u00a0Brazil<\/a>\u2019s attorney general on Tuesday charged former President\u00a0Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<\/a>; his successor,\u00a0Dilma Rousseff<\/a>; and several other senior figures of the Workers\u2019 Party<\/a> with running a \u201ccriminal organization\u201d that raked in hundreds of millions in bribes during the party\u2019s nearly 14-year reign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The case is the first in which Ms. Rousseff, who was\u00a0impeached last year<\/a>\u00a0for violating budgetary rules, stands accused of partaking in the kickback schemes that have cast a pall over every major Brazilian political party.<\/p>\n

The charges were unveiled the same day that Mr. da Silva wrapped up a 25-city campaign trip through his party\u2019s strongholds in the northeast, during which he sought to play down a\u00a0recent corruption conviction<\/a>\u00a0that may doom his ambition to return to the presidency.<\/p>\n

The attorney general, Rodrigo Janot<\/a>, whose term ends this month, described the governments of Mr. da Silva and Ms. Rousseff as essentially fronts for a criminal enterprise through which senior politicians collected roughly $450 million from entities that included the state-run oil company Petrobras<\/a> and the Brazilian National Development Bank<\/a>. In addition to his conviction, Mr. da Silva has been charged in several other cases in which he stands accused of accepting bribes of relatively modest sums.<\/p>\n

But the 230-page charge sheet released Tuesday puts him at the center of a huge conspiracy. Mr. Janot wrote that the allegations should not be seen as a sign that the judiciary was \u201ccriminalizing politics\u201d or routine \u201cpolitical negotiations,\u201d but rather as a record of a ruling elite that systematically used public money to \u201cbuy popular support.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The accusations against Ms. Rousseff, who has portrayed herself as a clean politician who was brought down by a cabal of corrupt rivals, is a startling development in the series of revelations\u00a0that spun from a routine investigation<\/a>\u00a0of money laundering at a gas station in Bras\u00edlia<\/a>,\u00a0Brazil<\/a>\u2019s capital, in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is very significant,\u201d said Matthew M. Taylor<\/a>, a professor at American University<\/a> in Washington who studies Brazil\u2019s justice system. \u201cDilma had been arguing that she was personally honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Janot described Mr. da Silva as the mastermind of the kickback scheme, initially as president and later as a result of the \u201cstrong influence he exercised over\u201d Ms. Rousseff. The attorney general emphasized that many key players in the bribery scheme were supported or appointed by Ms. Rousseff.<\/p>\n

\u201cDilma Rousseff integrated the current criminal organization since 2003 when she accepted\u201d Mr. da Silva\u2019s invitation to run the Ministry of Mines and Energy, he wrote. \u201cFrom there, she contributed decisively so that the private interests negotiated in exchange for bribes could be met, especially in relation to Petrobras, where she was the president of the board between 2003 and 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Janot, who was appointed by Ms. Rousseff in 2013, wrote that Mr. da Silva and Ms. Rousseff spread the wealth, inviting leaders of other political parties to take part in the scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cCritics had long said that given her prominent roles on the Petrobras board, and as head of the M.M.E., Dilma was either complicit or incompetent,\u201d Mr. Taylor said. \u201cJanot clearly thinks the former.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in a statement released Tuesday night, Ms. Rousseff\u2019s press office said, \u201cWithout presenting proof or evidence of a material crime, the attorney general\u2019s office is filing charges without any foundation whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the Workers\u2019 Party, in its own statement, called the allegations baseless and the continuation of a vendetta by the judiciary to weaken certain political factions through \u201cselective persecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case was filed as President Michel Temer<\/a>, who stepped into the job after Ms. Rousseff\u2019s impeachment in August 2016, was himself bracing for a new set of corruption charges. Mr. Janot\u00a0charged Mr. Temer with corruption in June<\/a>\u00a0over accusations that he authorized a bribe to keep an imprisoned politician silent. The president managed to avoid standing trial in that case by getting enough members of the lower house of Congress to block the case from reaching the Supreme Court \u2014 the only court where senior Brazilian elected officials may be tried.<\/p>\n

One defendant in the latest case, Senator Gleisi Hoffmann<\/a>, who took the helm of the Workers\u2019 Party in June, enjoys the same legal protection, which critics say has contributed to a culture of impunity among Brazilian politicians.<\/p>\n

It was unclear whether the case caught the defendants by surprise. As Brazilians were poring through the charging document, Mr. da Silva was sounding triumphant at the end of his caravan tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll say one thing: we\u2019re going to govern this country again,\u201d he\u00a0said in a post on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0addressing his followers. \u201cAnd when I saw we, it\u2019s not me. It\u2019s you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also charged in the case were: Guido Mantega<\/a>, a former finance minister; Paulo Bernardo<\/a>, a former communications minister; Antonio Palocci Filho<\/a>, a former chief of staff for Ms. Rousseff; Jo\u00e3o Vaccari Neto<\/a>, a former treasurer for the Workers\u2019 Party; and Edinho Silva<\/a>, the mayor of Araraquara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In this Oct. 21, 2016 file photo, federal police put items seized from the Federal Senate Legislative Police headquarters into a vehicle as part of the Operation Car Wash investigation. The Attorney General\u2019s office decided in July to triple its 2018 budget dedicated to the corruption probe engulfing political and business leaders in Brazil and across Latin America. Source: Eraldo Peres AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brazil engulfed in a corruption scandal with plots as convoluted as a telenovela<\/h3>\n

This material belongs to: Miami Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RIO DE JANEIRO\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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For more than three years Brazilians have been following the almost daily headlines of a corruption investigation that takes its name, Operation Lava Jato<\/a> (Car Wash), from a Brasilia gas station where illicit gains were being laundered through a money exchange service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the investigation, which began on May 17, 2014, has now moved far beyond money-laundering to probe corruption at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras<\/a> and bribes paid by some of the biggest companies in Brazil to politicians at the highest level of government.<\/p>\n

Operation Lava Jata has included more twists and turns than a Brazilian soap opera and has come dangerously close to sitting President Michel Temer. In early August, Brazil\u2019s lower House of Deputies voted not to forward a corruption case against Temer to the Supreme Court for trial but prosecutors say other charges against the president may be forthcoming.<\/p>\n

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Brazil’s President Michel Temer speaks during the inauguration ceremony for his new Culture Minister Sergio Sa Leitao at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia in July. In early August, Brazil\u2019s House of Deputies decided not to send corruption charges against Temer to the Supreme Court. Source: Eraldo Peres AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Temer spent a lot of political capital in his victory, including freeing up money for pet projects in legislators\u2019 home districts, and his struggle to defend himself could distract from his legislative agenda and critical pension reform needed to balance Brazil\u2019s books and avert a fiscal crisis.<\/p>\n

If Rodrigo Janot, the chief federal prosecutor, does decide to file other charges against Temer, the lower house would once again decide whether the case should be sent to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

So far there has been enough drama in the Lava Jato investigation to rival any Brazilian\u00a0telenovela. Among the highlights: stings, a secret recording of the president made by a tainted businessman, a mysterious plane crash, Swiss bank accounts, hush money, tracking chips in bags of cash, and a robbery\/shooting that sent a bag full of alleged bribe money floating over a Rio square.<\/p>\n

The investigation, spearheaded by Federal Judge S\u00e9rgio Moro<\/a>, has snared former presidents and billionaire corporate chieftains in a scheme where bribes were paid to win contracts at inflated prices and other favors were exchanged. Illegal payments of more than $5 billion were allegedly made, and the investigation is far from over.<\/p>\n

Lava Jato also has spawned many offshoot investigations and has moved well beyond the borders of Brazil to at least 12 countries where Brazilian companies are accused of paying bribes to win contracts and influence people.<\/p>\n

The break that turned Lava Jato from an investigation of money laundering through a Brasilia gas station\/car wash into a massive corruption investigation came when prosecutors were able to connect Alberto Youssef<\/a>, a black market money dealer, or\u00a0doleiro, with Paulo Roberto Costa<\/a>, a former director of Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company.<\/p>\n

Both entered into plea bargains, and Costa told investigators that Petrobras overpaid on everything from construction contracts to oil refineries and drilling rigs. In exchange for guaranteed contracts, he said, companies that worked with Petrobras agreed to padded contracts.<\/p>\n

A gusher of bribes aimed at keeping incumbent politicians in power was paid out in cash, luxury cars and other trappings of the good life, according to investigators.<\/p>\n

Soon the Lava Jato investigation began to expand in ever widening circles that also focused on Brazil\u2019s nine major construction companies, JBS<\/a> \u2014 one of the world\u2019s largest meat packing firms, public contracts and the politicians alleged to have profited from the bribes.<\/p>\n

Odebrecht<\/a>, a global conglomerate with interests not only in construction and engineering but oil and gas, logistics and bioenergy and power generation, was an early Lava Jato target. In December, Odebrecht and Braskem<\/a> \u2014 a petrochemical company controlled by Odebrecht \u2014 pleaded guilty to paying $788 million in bribes to corrupt government officials and politicians around the world to secure contracts. The companies agreed to pay $3.5 billion to settle charges by authorities in the United States, Brazil, and Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Odebrecht used the global financial system, including the U.S. banking system, to disguise the source and payment of the bribes by passing them through shell companies.<\/p>\n

Marcelo Odebrecht<\/a>, chief executive of Odebrecht and grandson of the firm\u2019s founder, was arrested in 2015, convicted of paying more than $30 million in bribes to Petrobras executives and sentenced to 19 years. Odebrecht\u2019s lawyers are currently trying to get his jail time reduced and he could be released before Christmas 2018. Nearly 80 other Odebrecht executives have agreed to plea bargains and are under house arrest.<\/p>\n

But analysts say the big fish at this point aren\u2019t the business executives, but rather the politicians who, up to now, have largely escaped prosecution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe seemed to be releasing the sharks. They are at home with their ankle monitors,\u201d said Iuri Dantas<\/a>, an editor at JOTA.info<\/a>, a Brazilian news website that focuses on the judiciary. \u201cBut then recently we\u2019ve begun to understand the sharks are really the politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 100 politicians have been charged in Operation Car Wash so far, but only a few are serving jail terms.<\/p>\n

The biggest fish so far is former President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<\/a>, who left office in 2011. He was convicted of corruption in July and sentenced to 9 1\/2 years in prison but is appealing the conviction and hasn\u2019t served any jail time.<\/p>\n

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An inflatable doll representing former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wearing prison clothes stands on a cross with his name in Brasilia on Aug. 27, 2017. Demonstrators set crosses representing the death of corrupt politicians in protests across the country. Source: Eraldo Peres AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His supporters are hoping his appeal will be successful so that he can run in the 2018 presidential election but more charges related to $1.2 million in bribes he allegedly accepted also are possible.<\/p>\n

Another former president, Fernando Collor<\/a>, also faces trial on charges of corruption, money laundering, and running a criminal organization for allegedly taking bribes to help firms win contracts with BR Distribuidora<\/a>, Petrobras\u2019 fuel distribution unit. Some of the money he received was allegedly laundered through the acquisition of luxury cars, artwork, and a boat.<\/p>\n

Lava Jato has built momentum on the testimony of informants and an avalanche of plea bargains as those caught in the net of justice sing.<\/p>\n

Wealthy executives rarely spent even minimum time in jail in the past, but this time prosecutors have often denied them bail and used preventive detention to hold them. They have found it in their interest to cooperate and serve out sentences under house arrest after implicating others \u2014 rather than facing the cold reality of jail.<\/p>\n

Plea bargaining is a relatively new tool for Brazilian prosecutors. Instituting plea bargaining was one of the new laws and tools aimed at rooting out corruption that were fast-tracked during the administration of former President Dilma Rousseff<\/a>, who had zero tolerance for corruption.<\/p>\n

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Brazil’s ousted President Dilma Rousseff speaks to supporters from the official residence of the president, Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia on Aug. 31, 2016, in her first remarks since her impeachment. \u201cThey think that they beat us, but they are wrong,\u201d she said. Source: Leo Correa AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She herself was impeached for false accounting by shifting money between accounts to make government finances appear in better shape \u2014 not as part of the Lava Jato investigation \u2014 but other presidents have done as much without similar consequences.<\/p>\n

Rousseff had other problems. Her economic policies were unpopular and she was blamed for Brazil\u2019s recession, but beyond that, some analysts believe her anti-corruption stance also contributed to her ouster last August.<\/p>\n

She did little to protect high-ranking members of her ruling coalition from corruption accusations, and the bid to oust her was orchestrated by Eduardo Cunha<\/a>, former speaker of the House of Deputies who in March was sentenced to 15 years in prison on money laundering, corruption and currency law evasion. The charges against him stemmed from a $1.6 million bribe prosecutors say he received from Petrobras.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Rousseff, who says Lula\u2019s conviction is a \u201cmockery,\u201d has appeared with him at political rallies focused on his return to the presidency in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers a brief speech to the media and supporters at the headquarters of the Worker’s Party in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The sign reads in Portuguese: \u201cElections without Lula are fraud!” Source: Andre Penner AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brazilians, meanwhile, need a scorecard to keep track of who has been convicted, accused and taken prisoner, and the Lava Jato investigation has provided the nation with plenty of scandals \u2014 too much some would say.<\/p>\n

On Jan. 19, a small plane carrying Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki<\/a>, who had been handling the Lava Jato trials, crashed into the sea near Paraty<\/a>. He and four others aboard died. The weather was stormy, but investigators said the plane did not appear to have any mechanical problems.<\/p>\n

Also shocking to Brazilians was the late-night visit to Temer\u2019s official residence by Joesley Batista<\/a>, one of three brothers that ran JBS, one of the world\u2019s biggest meat packing companies and himself a Lava Jato target.<\/p>\n

Although Temer has denied that he has had anything to do with bribes, Batista was carrying a recording device during his March visit. Their recorded conversation appeared to indicate that the president may have been condoning the payment of hush money to Cunha. Temer has denied he ever solicited money to buy Cunha\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n

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In this April 15, 2016 file photo, former House of Deputies Speaker Eduardo Cunha attends a debate on whether or not to impeach former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. She was removed from office later that year. Source: Eraldo Peres AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The secret recording led to a videotaped sting operation that shows a Batista associate handing over a suitcase full of cash to Rodrigo Rocha Loures<\/a>, a trusted Temer associate, who is shown running across the parking lot of a pizza parlor carrying the suitcase containing more than $150,000 in cash.<\/p>\n

In the interest of transparency, prosecutors have released both the taped conversation with the president and the video, which has been played over and over on Brazilian television.<\/p>\n

Batista and his brother Wesley<\/a> have turned over documents to prosecutors that detail alleged payments to 1,829 politicians from 28 parties through official donations, illegal campaign contributions or through bribes in exchange for favorable treatment for their businesses.<\/p>\n

For his cooperation, Joesley Batista has escaped both jail time and the requirement to wear an electronic ankle bracelet.<\/p>\n

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A technician tests electronic bracelets at Sao Paulo-based Synergye, a company that makes the bracelets and monitors inmates in Sao Paulo. When the massive “Car Wash” mega-corruption scandal probe began, fewer than 10,000 inmates were under house surveillance, according to the companies that provide the bracelets. Today more than 24,000 prisoners use the devices. Source: Andre Penner AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cToday Brazil is undergoing three crises: one of ethics, one of politics and one of economics,\u201d said Janot, the chief prosecutor during a trip to Washington in July. It\u2019s common to attribute them all to the biggest criminal investigation in Latin America, but he said Lava Jato isn\u2019t to blame, but rather a corrupt system under which certain companies found a way to impede competition and maintain themselves through bribery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hear everyday that the Brazilian justice system is criminalizing politics,\u201d said Janot, whose term is scheduled to end Sept. 17. \u201cThis is not true. What we do is apply criminal law and look for criminals \u2014 even those who have political mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n

While polls show that most Brazilians support the assault on corruption, they didn\u2019t take to the streets in massive numbers to express dismay at Temer\u2019s dodging trial as they did in 2013 when millions of Brazilians were in the streets protesting everything from rising bus fares to corruption and the lack of quality healthcare and public education.<\/p>\n

One reason may be that unlike Rousseff\u2019s, Temer\u2019s economic agenda isn\u2019t reviled. But a certain Lava Jato fatigue also has begun to set in. Journalists say the charges against the high and mighty have become so routine that readership of such stories is down and people aren\u2019t commenting on them as much online.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think right now people are tired,\u201d said Natalia Viana<\/a>, of Publica<\/a>, a Rio-based investigative journalism agency. \u201cBrazilians have been very accustomed to corruption in political life. But unlike before, something did happen \u2014 people were removed from office. There was hope that the investigation might cause permanent change in Brazil, but now with Temer getting off, people are starting to lose that hope,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are in a chess game, but we are three steps behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the turning point will be in the hands of Brazilian society that is already saturated with this,\u201d said Alana Rizzo<\/a>, a director of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now investigative task forces have begun to probe new areas, including contracts related to construction for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect this could go on for the next five years \u2014 at least,\u201d said Dantas.<\/p>\n

Janot said his greatest disappointment as prosecutor is that the investigation didn\u2019t move as fast as he would have liked. But he said it\u2019s necessary for the spotlight to continue to shine on corruption to cleanse everything in Brazil.<\/p>\n

As the investigation grinds on, Janot said it\u2019s important to remember that a corrupt system steals from public education, healthcare and public safety budgets. But most of all, he said, \u201ccorruption steals the hope and future of a people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Federal police officers, carrying seized items, leave the building where Brazilian Sen. A\u00e9cio Neves<\/a> resides in the Ipanema section of Rio de Janeiro on May 18, 2017. Neves is being investigated in several corruption cases related to the Car Wash probe. He has denied wrongdoing. Source: Silvia Izquierdo AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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