Brazil’s Postal Service to be probed for corruption
The Brazilian government on Monday ordered a thorough investigation of the country’s postal service in the face of media reports of a corruption plot involving lawmaker and Labor Party leader Roberto Jefferson.
The Communications Ministry, which oversees the post office, announced that it had removed from the service’s head of contracting and administration, Mauricio Marinho, who was accused by the magazine Vega of engaging in corruption in complicity with Jefferson.
The weekly reported that Marinho and Jefferson saw to it that certain firms won bids for various contracts offered via the postal service and other public entities.
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