SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday it made “no sense” for the UNITED STATE Department of Justice to inquire from Saab over Brazil’s acquisition of the Swedish firm’s Gripen competitor jets in 2014.
Saab uncovered the united state demand on Thursday and said it meant to stick to it, with out giving extra data.
“I think this is the U.S. meddling in another country’s affairs,” Lula knowledgeable a radio assembly. The leftist chief stays in his third non-consecutive time period, having really previously labored as head of state in between 2003 and 2010.
The care for Saab – which defeat Boeing and France’s Dassault to guard the settlement – was tattooed by the administration of Lula’s handpicked follower, earlier President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazilian district attorneys in 2016 formally implicated Lula of using his influence to help Saab win the tender for the 36 competitor jets value $5.4 billion, a state of affairs the pinnacle of state’s authorized representatives said on the time totaled as much as “political persecution”.
The state of affairs was thrown out by Brazil’s Supreme Court in 2022, when it dominated district attorneys had really been prejudiced versus Lula whereas holding in thoughts the acquisition complied with the structure and was not examined by our bodies taking care of the supply.
(Reporting by Gabriel Araujo and Lisandra Paraguassu; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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