A previous Rio de Janeiro representative who was a key figure in facilitating Brazil's 2014 World Glass and the 2016 Rio Olympics was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in jail for defilement.
Sergio Cabral was captured in November of a year ago on different gift and illegal tax avoidance charges, incorporating interest in the misappropriation of 220 million reais ($64 million) from open works activities, for example, Rio's notorious Maracana football stadium.
While Cabral, 54, was sentenced to 14 years and two months in jail, while his significant other Adriana Ancelmo was vindicated for absence of confirmation.
For the situation, in which the sentence was declared Friday, Cabral was blamed for taking kickbacks for development contracts including at an oil refinery in Rio state. He confronts charges in nine different cases.
Judge Sergio Moro, who heads the across the nation hostile to unite operation codenamed "Auto Wash," said in his sentencing that Cabral's reward assuming was halfway to fault for the state's close chapter 11 today, "where the populace and open workers are enduring."
Prosecutors said that Cabral demanded kickbacks adding up to five percent of the estimation of agreements as Rio state requested tremendous open works extends in front of the World Glass and South America's first Olympics. The intense representative lived high on the returns, binge spending on gems and other extravagance things.
Cabral was legislative leader of Rio from 2007-2014, a period that started when Brazil was riding high on solid costs for oil and other item sends out, yet finished in devastating subsidence.
He surrendered in 2014 in the midst of savage showings against defilement and spending cuts.
The circumstance is no better today, with open workers going from police to therapeutic staff not being paid on time and foundation disintegrating.
An individual from President Michel Temer's anti-extremist PMDB party, Cabral is only one of scores of government officials focused via "Auto Wash," including senior figures from over the political range.
