Luciana Vasconcelos
Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – Today members of the Bingo Parliamentary Investigative Commission (CPI) will debate whether or not to convoke minister of Finance, Antonio Palocci, to testify regarding charges of corruption in the city of Ribeirão Preto (state of São Paulo) when he was mayor.

The CPI is also looking into reports of funds coming from abroad to finance the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vitorious presidential campaign in 2002. Palocci told the congressional Commission on Economic Affairs, in testimony last week, that no money from Cuba, Angola or the Colombia insurgent group, FARC, went to the Lula campaign.

Translator: Allen Bennett