Inconsistencies Surface in Accusations Against Brazil's Lula
Inconsistencies Surface in Accusations Against Brazil's Lula
Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva talks to the journalists during a press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 15, 2016. | Photo: Reuters
Published 19 September 2016 (13 hours 58 minutes ago)
Supporters of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva argue that corruption accusations against him are a ploy to block his run for president.
Inconsistencies are beginning to surface in the allegations ofcorruption hurled at Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, as prosecutors' assertionscontradict with the witness statements of one of the main informants in the case, the Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported Monday.
But Costa, targeted for fraud as part of Operation Car Wash beginning in 2014, denied in his 2015 testimony that he had conspired with Lula to get the position.
“I never even talked with the current president (now ousted President Dilma Rousseff), or with the (former) President Lula on this subject,” Costa said in his May 5, 2015 statements, according to Folha. “I never talked!”
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