List of 2.900 Brazilian Officials Charged with Fraud Has Judges, Governors and Mayors

Brazil’s TCU (Tribunal de Contas da União), a Brazilian watchdog agency, which is actually a court that examines government spending, has delivered a list of 2,900 public officials charged with malfeasance.

The list was sent to the TSE (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral – Federal Election Board and it contains no less than five former governors, nine judges and 1,500 former mayors.

The president of the TCU, Adylson Motta, explains that the list does not have any immediate consequences because each case has to examined by the TSE and then there is the possibility of appealing any unfavorable sentences.

As many of the people on the list are candidates in this year’s October elections, Motta points out that if found guilty of malfeasance, even if elected, they can lose their mandate and be expelled from office.

Most of the crimes the 2,900 people on the list are charged with are misuse of public funds, fraudulent or manipulation of contract bidding or purchasing products at inflated prices, which leaves room for kickbacks.

All the cases of malfeasance on the TCU list have been proven but no one has been found guilty of any crime, yet.

ABr

Tags:

You May Also Like

Nigeria Joins Brazil Fight to Reform the UN

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said in his speech during the banquet ...

Led by Industry Economy Grows 5.4% in Brazil

The Brazilian economy grew by 5.4% in the second quarter compared with the same ...

Chavez & Lula Win. Brazil Senate Votes for Admission of Venezuela into Mercosur

By 35 votes to 27, the Brazilian Senate approved today, December 15, the entry ...

Brazil to Send 5 Ministers to World Social Forum in Venezuela

The Brazilian government will send no less than five ministers of state to the ...

Manaus Free Zone Gets a Lift, But Rest of Brazil Lags

The new cargo terminal at Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, capital of the ...

There’s No Business Like Oil Business – in Brazil Anyway

Oil has seldom been far from the headlines in Brazil since the state-owned petroleum ...

Japan and Brazil Sign Biofuel Deal

Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Supply and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation ...

Brazilian Blacks Start News Agency to Spread the Word on Them

Brazil’s Afro-Brazilian Society for Social and Cultural Development (Afrobras) is going to launch AfrobrasNews ...

Veja’s Yankee Brazilian Teens

Brazilian leading magazine Veja tells in a special report that they took a portrait ...

Organic Gets Some Respect in Brazil

Not only developed markets like the United States, Japan and Europe are consumers of ...