Some of the contracts appear to have been padded to pay bribes to Diamantis.
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Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
3 Oct. 2026
These scandals, which included massive bribes and kickbacks on projects across the continent, contributed to a political crisis that, in 2016, ended Dilma Rousseff’s presidency and, in 2018, sent Lula to prison.
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