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Brazil builder execs say Rousseff campaign used kickbacks: paper
Source: Reuters
World | Thu Apr 7, 2016 12:01pm EDT
Brazil builder execs say Rousseff campaign used kickbacks: paper
Executives from Brazil's second-largest engineering company testified that President Dilma Rousseff's 2014 reelection campaign was partly funded by kickbacks from large infrastructure projects, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
The testimony, part of a plea bargain with 11 executives of builder Andrade Gutierrez (AGIS.UL), would be the strongest link yet between the widening "Operation Car Wash" probe and Rousseff's campaign, the Folha de S.Paulo paper said.
The main opposition party PSDB has demanded that electoral authorities strike down Rousseff's victory and call for fresh elections later this year.
A spokeswoman for Rousseff's Workers' Party, known as PT, said the allegations were false. "All the campaign donations received by the PT party were strictly legal and declared to the electoral court," she told Reuters in an emailed response.
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Brazil builder execs say Rousseff campaign used kickbacks: paper
Executives from Brazil's second-largest engineering company testified that President Dilma Rousseff's 2014 reelection campaign was partly funded by kickbacks from large infrastructure projects, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
The testimony, part of a plea bargain with 11 executives of builder Andrade Gutierrez (AGIS.UL), would be the strongest link yet between the widening "Operation Car Wash" probe and Rousseff's campaign, the Folha de S.Paulo paper said.
The main opposition party PSDB has demanded that electoral authorities strike down Rousseff's victory and call for fresh elections later this year.
A spokeswoman for Rousseff's Workers' Party, known as PT, said the allegations were false. "All the campaign donations received by the PT party were strictly legal and declared to the electoral court," she told Reuters in an emailed response.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-idUSKCN0X425E
