Iolando Lourenço  Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – During the debates on the new Land Use Code (“Código Florestal”) in the Chamber of Deputies last week the author of the bill, deputy Aldo Rebelo (PcdoB–SP) accused the husband of the former minister of Environment, Marina Silva, of questionable business relations with federal agencies connected to the Ministry of Environment. Rebelo claimed that when Marina was minister he acted to protect her husband from being subpoenaed  to appear before a congressional commission investigating his business relations.

This weekend Marina Silva announced that she will request an investigation of the accusations by the Federal Police in order to clear her husband’s name. Marina declared that the accusations against her husband came from “…people whose spurious interests were blocked by decisions I made when I was the minister of Environment and cracked downed on illegal commerce of lumber and criminal deforestation in the Amazon.”

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

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