More than $5 million at immediately’s alternate price was charged to the previous Brazilian president’s card throughout his four-year time period.
(Reuters)
More than $21,000 splurged at a modest restaurant – $10,700 spent at a bakery in a single day. The public launch of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s official bank card expenditures is elevating eyebrows in Brazil.
More than 27.6 million reais – greater than $5 million at immediately’s alternate price – was charged to the far-right president’s card throughout his four-year time period, in response to account statements printed Friday on a authorities web site.
Unlike his predecessors, Bolsonaro threw a 100-year secrecy veil over presidential bank card expenditures amongst different official info, which successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has begun lifting.
Bolsonaro and 21 members of his staff had entry to the cardboard.
Adjusted for inflation, the total quantity charged to the cardboard is nearly half that spent throughout Lula’s first four-year time period starting in 2003 – although he used the cardboard primarily for lodging whereas travelling overseas.
Bolsonaro had regularly claimed to not have charged “a single penny” to the cardboard.
But evaluation of the newly-opened data by the Uol news web site discovered that immediately’s equal of greater than $235,000 was spent by Bolsonaro whereas on trip in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
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Astonishing bills
Nearly $14,000 was spent on a single go to to a petroleum station, and one other $286,000 on a number of visits to a luxurious resort in Guaruja, a seaside resort close to Sao Paulo.
According to the web site G1, the resort housed members of Bolsonaro’s entourage, whereas he stayed at a army advanced.
Food bills had been among the many most astonishing billed objects.
On one go to to a restaurant in Boa Vista within the Amazonian state of Roraima, the presidential card was used to pay a invoice of greater than $21,000.
That can be sufficient for an order of two,000 plates of the restaurant’s most costly dish: roast hen with a facet starch, which prices rather less than $10.
The card was additionally used to cost greater than $71,000 over 4 years at a bakery in Rio de Janeiro.
Of this quantity, virtually $11,000 was spent in a single go on the day after the marriage of Bolsonaro’s son. It additionally occurred to be the eve of a motorcycle rally organised by Bolsonaro supporters by the streets of Rio.
A complete of greater than $1,600 was spent at ice cream outlets.
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Source: AFP
