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Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 06:57 PM Mar 2015

Brazil's attorney general announces anti-corruption measures

Brazil's attorney general announces anti-corruption measures
Associated Press – 2 hours 52 minutes ago

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's attorney general said Friday he will ask Congress to approve a series of anti-graft measures to combat the "plague that is corruption." Rodrigo Janot made the proposal just two days after President Dilma Rousseff announced similar measures in the wake of last weekend's massive rallies calling for her impeachment and protesting rampant corruption in Brazil.

Both Janot and Rousseff call for the criminalization of slush funds used to finance election campaigns, the seizure of assets of people found guilty of corruption, and the requirement that government officials have no record of crimes. The attorney general's proposals also would classify corruption as a heinous crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
They would make illicit enrichment a crime, with penalties determined by the amount of money involved.

"Corruption steals food, medicine and the education of Brazilians. He who steals millions, kills millions," federal prosecutor Delton Dallagnol said at the event where the proposals were announced.

"Like homicide, corruption kills, and leaving Brazil without health or education is a heinous crime," said Dallagnol who is coordinating the investigation into the corruption-kickback scandal engulfing Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras.
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Brazil's attorney general announces anti-corruption measures (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2015 OP
So does that mean they took into consideration the massive "fascist" protests? Marksman_91 Mar 2015 #1
 

Marksman_91

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1. So does that mean they took into consideration the massive "fascist" protests?
Sat Mar 21, 2015, 07:25 PM
Mar 2015

You'd think the Workers' Party would not fall under pressure from the right.

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