Brazilian Police Arrest
14 Mayors For
Embezzlement
Brazilian police
Wednesday arrested 44
people charged with
embezzling money from a
government fund,
including 14 mayors, in
the states of Minas
Gerais and Bahia.
The arrests also
included a federal court
judge, nine private
attorneys, four
municipal attorneys,
four employees of the
judiciary, the manager
of a government bank and
a lobbyist.
According to
investigations, which
started eight months
ago, the arrested
embezzled at least 200
million reais (119
million U.S. dollars)
from the municipalities'
share in the revenues
from the income tax and
the tax on
industrialized products,
both levied by the
federal government.
Some 500 agents took
part in the operations
on Wednesday.
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