Paulo Maluf
Paulo Maluf ( born December 3, 1931 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian politician.
Life
As the son of Lebanese immigrants Salim Farah Maluf and his wife Maria Estéfano Maluf, Paulo Maluf was born in São Paulo on December 3, 1931. He is married to Sylvia Lutfalla Maluf and has four children and eleven grandchildren. In 1954 he obtained the diploma of civil engineering at the Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo.
Political life
His first public office he took over at the age of 36 years, 1967, as President of Caixa Economica Federal. Until then, he had devoted himself to the business activities of the family.
He left this post in 1969 to take over as mayor of the leadership of the Municipality of São Paulo, then with 6 million inhabitants. His administration was preparing the city from the urban development that began with a sudden increase in the population in the beginning of the 70s. During his tenure, the construction of buildings and highways, 60 bridges and quays fell on the rivers Pinheiros and Tietê, stops of more than 700,000 vehicles per day today. This road construction prevented the traffic chaos in the city, which had at that time to cope with only 500,000 vehicles. Today there are more than 5 million, since on average every second inhabitant owns a vehicle.
Already in 1971, Maluf were on the mayor's office and took over the post of Federal Secretary of State for Transport, which he carried four years. He was then elected president of the trade association of São Paulo, from which he took leave in 1978 to attend a party congress, which would elect the future governor of the state of São Paulo. In this historic congress he beat the previously supported by the central government candidate and was elected as the only candidate for governor of a state that did not have the support of the then military government of Brasília.
In 1982 he was a candidate for Federal Chamber ( Câmara Federal) and was charged with 672 729 votes, the highest ever votes for a federal deputies ever in Brazilian politics, was elected. He held that post until 1986.
In 1993 he was - elected with 53 % of the vote - the second time mayor of São Paulo. As a result, he transformed the city into a construction site to make up for lost time in this respect of the previous legislature. In this large structural projects had come to a standstill as the continued growth of the city was ignored. He held until 1996 this office.
Investigations
Paulo Maluf is the epitome of corruption in Brazil. In September 2005, he and his son Flávio Maluf for a few weeks in custody.
Since 2004, the Brazilian public prosecutor's office in connection with the transfer of 100 million U.S. dollars from accounts in Switzerland - including at UBS - in the City of London.
In 2007, an indictment against him in New York was filed for the theft of 11.6 million U.S. dollars from funds of a public construction project, for which he served as mayor of Sao Paulo. Back then inflated invoices had been issued. A total of about 140 million U.S. dollars had flowed through an account in the years 1997 to 1999, had the Maluf proxy. The funds were channeled through the Safra National Bank of New York to accounts in Jersey, which had been controlled by Paulo Maluf. Because of this indictment Maluf has been set for misappropriation of government funds and money laundering by Interpol on the wanted list, so that he faces arrest in 181 countries.
In August 2012, it was announced that Maluf more than 200 million U.S. dollars illegally from Geneva transferred with the participation of Deutsche Bank in the British tax haven Jersey - public money the city of São Paulo, from 1993 to 1996 out of his he was mayor. The city of Sao Paulo is currently looking to sue the German Bank for repayment of the money. The result of the investigations and the expected condemnation Malufs is seen as an important signal to those in Brazil, transfer funds in tax havens.
Since Maluf was re-elected as an MP, he enjoys parliamentary immunity. He By choosing entitled to a special court, but that has not ever been convicted politicians in Brazil in the last 50 years. Some of his actions fall under the statute of limitations. In addition, Brazilian law provides for other exceptions: So do people from the age of 70 no longer imprisonment compete.