Brazil's Lula gets prison term
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| Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.- REUTERS |
(Vatican Radio) Twice President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula
Da Silva, has been sentenced to nine and a half years, after being
convicted by a Judge of corruption charges.
Judge Sergio Moro found Lula guilty of accepting the
equivalent of 1.2 million dollars in bribes, principally in the form of a
luxury apartment in return for steering State Petroleum Company Petrobras contracts
the way of engineering company OAS. Lula, who's denied any wrong doing,
says it's been a political witch hunt. Characteristically he's said:
"I'll keep fighting." Born into acute poverty, a shoe shine boy
who became a union leader, and twice President of Brazil, economically pulling
it up by its bootstraps, Lula remains very popular amongst the millions he
helped elevate from dire poverty. His chosen
successor Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from the Presidency for
allegedly manipulating the economy via banks. and current President
Michel Temer, has been formally charged with bribery.
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