Mensalão scandal

Mensalão scandal is the name of a political bribery scandal that has taken in Brazil.

2005 Veja reported on a video that show a bribe handover to a politician. Seven years later, the trial began of 37 people, including senior members of the ruling party Partido dos Trabalhadores, but not the former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. His role was " unclear and controversial to this day ."

The entrepreneur Marcos Valério is one of the 25 defendants who were found guilty. He was sentenced to a prison term of forty years and four months, the highest in this process. There were pronounced fines more adhesive and. The trial judge Joaquim Barbosa gained a great reputation because the process was conducted in public and accompanied detail medially.

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