Prosecutors said companies that had won lucrative government contracts during Martinelli’s presidency funneled money to a front company that was then used to purchase the publisher. The transactions involved a complex series of foreign money transfers totally $43 million. The front company collecting the money was called “New Business.”
Lula wasn’t acquitted though… He got out due to a technicality as a result of a “new” interpretation of the law. (read some level of corruption here) His last trial (after being found guilty 3 times) allegedly was supposed to happen in Brasília but instead happened in Paraná. The due process would be for the whole ordeal to restart but since he’s over 65 years old, there’s some lenience in the law that impedes the process to resume. This does NOT nullify anything that was proven in the other 3 trials (and also the 4th which was what put him in jail. There’s a lot of backroom deals happening all over government and the supreme court “allegedly” is in on the pie. Bozonaro had the chance to keep this corrupt ex-president in jail and forfeited it, himself being another corrupt president. But hey, love won didn’t it?! =)