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10 Facts About Paulo Bernardo

1.

Paulo Bernardo Silva was born on 10 March 1952 and is a Brazilian politician, member of the Workers' Party.

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Paulo Bernardo was Minister of Communications during the government of Dilma Rousseff and Minister of Planning during the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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Paulo Bernardo da Silva was born in Sao Paulo, son of Alfredo Manoel da Silva and Sydnea Bernardes da Silva.

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Paulo Bernardo is an employee of Bank of Brazil and was undergraduate in Geology for the University of Brasilia.

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Paulo Bernardo was Federal Deputy from Parana in 3 legislatures.

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Paulo Bernardo was part of Dilma Rousseff's government since the beginning, as Minister of Communications.

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Paulo Bernardo was arrested during one of the offshoots of Operation Car Wash, entitled Operation Brazil Cost of the Federal Police on 23 June 2016, being released a week later, on 29 June 2016, by Supreme Federal Court Justice Dias Toffoli, who considered the prison a "blatant illegal constraint".

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Paulo Bernardo is the main suspect in the involvement of embezzlement of public resources in the Ministry of Planning.

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Paulo Bernardo, according to the investigations, was connect to a bribery payment regarding contracts of services provision of computing by the company Consist by the cost of R$ 100 million, between 2010 and 2015, emblezzed from federal government employees who did a payroll loan.

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Paulo Bernardo is accused of receiving resources from a fraud scheme in the contract of management of payroll loans in the Ministry of Planning.