SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated on Friday it made “no sense” for the UNITED STATE Department of Justice to inquire from Saab over Brazil’s acquisition of the Swedish company’s Gripen competitor jets in 2014.
Saab exposed the united state demand on Thursday and stated it meant to adhere to it, without giving additional information.
“I think this is the U.S. meddling in another country’s affairs,” Lula informed a radio meeting. The leftist leader remains in his 3rd non-consecutive term, having actually formerly worked as head of state in between 2003 and 2010.
The take care of Saab – which defeat Boeing and France’s Dassault to protect the agreement – was tattooed by the management of Lula’s handpicked follower, previous President Dilma Rousseff.
Brazilian district attorneys in 2016 officially implicated Lula of utilizing his impact to aid Saab win the tender for the 36 competitor jets worth $5.4 billion, a situation the head of state’s legal representatives stated at the time totaled up to “political persecution”.
The situation was thrown out by Brazil’s Supreme Court in 2022, when it ruled district attorneys had actually been prejudiced versus Lula while keeping in mind the acquisition complied with the constitution and was not tested by bodies looking after the offer.
(Reporting by Gabriel Araujo and Lisandra Paraguassu; Editing by Toby Chopra)
