He Government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spent R$ 345,000 (reals or S/218,074) on the transfer of Peru to Brazil of the wife of Ollanta Humala, Nadine Herediaafter she was granted asylum in the embassy of that country in April of this year, according to local media R7.
According to the local Brazilian media, the trip Heredia Alarcon on the plane Brazilian Air Force (FAB) generated a large expense for the government. In detail, the transfer alone involved a disbursement of R$ 318,000 (S/200,848) which includes logistical costs such as fuel, maintenance and flight hours of the plane.
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Likewise, another R$ 19,000 (S/12,000) was spent on airport handling fees and R$ 7,500 (S/4,739) on travel expenses for the crew that transported her.
As is public knowledge, the former first lady left Peruvian territory after being sentenced in the first instance to 15 years in prison for the crimes of money laundering and corruption within the framework of the investigations into the case. Lava Jato. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, during the presidential campaigns of Humala TassoIn 2006 and 2011, illicit contributions were received from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and the government of Venezuela.
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Deputy Marcel van Hattem on Nadine Heredia’s transfer cost: “Lula never tires of damaging Brazil’s image”
Through his official X account (formerly Twitter), opposition deputy Marcel van Hattem questioned the Brazilian president, Lula da Silvafor the cost of moving from Heredia to your country. Likewise, Van Hattem attacked the president and recalled that the former first lady’s asylum was harshly questioned by Transparency International.
“Lula never tires of damaging Brazil’s image abroad, and of using our money! (Asylum is) a decision also criticized by Transparency International, which described the case as ‘one of the most infamous in Latin American history’. And he went further: he stated that it is a ‘disgrace that the Brazilian people did not deserve,'” he said.
“The amount was only known thanks to a request from us, from the parliamentary group of the NOVO party, because if it depended on Lula and the PT (Workers’ Party), we would still not know the magnitude of the loss. A real shame!”, he said.
