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The Court of Criminal Investigation decided this week to prosecute the former banker and seven other defendants in a corruption case involving the former vice-president of Banco do Brasil.
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“By notification issued on the 15th day of this month of July”, the Central Court of Criminal Investigation Confirms, this Thursday, “the generality of the accusations of the Public Ministry made within the scope of the process that focuses on facts related to Banco do Brasil”.
More. “The four defendants who requested the opening of an investigation were notified for crimes of active corruption affecting international trade, passive corruption in the private sector and money laundering.”
Among the seven defendants is former banker Ricardo Salgado and they are involved in a corruption case involving the former vice president of Banco do Brasil. Alan Toledo, linked to PT Lula da Silva, allegedly received bribes of 1 million and 600 thousand euros in exchange for a credit line of 176 million euros to finance BES.
In addition to Salgado, Paulo Murta – a manager who has since been extradited to the United States – João Alexandre Silva, the former head of BES Madeira and two lawyers will also be put on trial..
“It is about lines of credit in the Interbank Monetary Market (MMI) and lines of credit in the context of documentary credit (letters of credit), and the facts also related to the former vice president of Banco do Brasil and the suppliers of Venezuela. PDVSA oil company. Total benefits of €12,242,964.83 were obtained as a result of committing the indicted crimes”, says the DCIAP.
Remember that the former banker has already been convicted in two cases – one connected to Operation Marquês and the other in the case of the EDP. Awaiting judgment in the main case regarding the collapse of the Espírito Santo Group and in the BES Angola case.