Stage 33 of Operation Car Wash, launched Tuesday (Aug. 2) by Federal Police, aims to clarify allegations over illegal donations made to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's reelection campaign in 2006 by QUIP consortium, a government contractor.
In a recent plea bargaining statement, the former chair of Petrobras subsidiary Transpetro, Sérgio Machado, said Brazil's Vice-President Michel Temer, now acting president, asked him for money under the table to fund his party's São Paulo mayoral candidate Gabriel Chalita in 2
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