Rio De Janeiro: A senior official at the Brazilian Ministry of Health has resigned after the newspaper who published allegations of corruption in the country’s vaccine program, added pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Paulo reported Tuesday’s claim that Roberto Dias, Logistics Director of the Ministry, had searched for bribes from a company that was said to sell sales of 400 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Brazil.
Representatives, Luiz Paulo Dominguetti from Davati’s medical supply, said he had met at a restaurant in a shopping center in Brasilia in February, where the request was made for payment of dollars per dose.
It was rejected by the company.
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Tuesday Tuesday, after Wahyu was published, the Ministry of Health announced the DIAS would resign.
AstraZeneca, for its part, said that in a statement it did not use an intermediary to sell vaccines to the government.
The latest claims from Malefasing add to the long list of the alleged mistakes by the Bolsonaro government in handling the Coronavirus epidemic that has claimed more than half a million people in Brazil amid a critical vaccine defense.
“This is a serious accusation.
We will call (Dominguetti) to appear before the commission on Friday,” Senator Tweet Omar Aziz, who led the Senate Commission investigating the handling of government pandemics.
Last week, the Senate heard the allegations that the deal to buy another vaccine, Covaxin made in India, was truly the front to roll millions of dollars, that Ally Key Bolsonaro adopted the plan, and that the President knew all about it.
A health ministry official told the Superior Commission has given pressure “atypical, excessive” to him to approve payments for the agreement he thought was billed over-bill.
His officials and sisters Luis Miranda, a member of Congress near Bolsonaro, said they took the matter to the President, but he did not take action.
On Monday, following these charges, three Brazil Senators officially accused Bolsonaro from Malefase before the Supreme Court.
However, Attorney August Attorney August, the Allied President, must bring allegations for this problem to continue.
On Tuesday night, Aras representatives said there were no questions to be opened during the investigation into the ongoing Senate.
The anti Bolsonaro protest was planned in Brasilia this week, and representatives of several opposition parties had threatened to bring fresh impeachment processes to the president.
More than 100 such requests have been submitted in Congress, but Bolsonaro has been protected so far by the President of the Deputy Room, Arthur Lira, another ally.
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