Mariana Jungmann          Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – Operation Voucher, the August 9th Federal Police dragnet that resulted in the arrests of at least 35 people connected to suspicious contracts by the Ministry of Tourism, caught the Palacio do Planalto by surprise, according to Ideli Salvatti, minister of Institutional Relations, “We were preparing a presentation of a new government program (“Supersimples”) when we got the news,” she declared.

Ideli said that the present minister of Tourism was not involved in the scandal as he took office after the period when the contracts were signed.

“We are waiting for a final report from the police. The government’s position is clear: anyone involved in wrongdoing should be punished.,” she declared.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

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