Mantega, 69, is accused of
taking money from construction giant Odebrecht in exchange for helping to
advance legislation that favored the company, Judge Sergio Moro wrote.
It is the first time
Mantega has been charged in the so-called “Operation Car Wash”, a vast probe of
a pay-to-play relationship between Brazilian companies and politicians centred
around the state oil company Petrobras.
Mantega was finance
minister during the second term of now jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva, and continued to hold the post under Lula’s successor Dilma Rousseff.
(AFP)
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