In the midst of substantial investments for the World Cup and the Olympics in Brazil, contractor Murillo Mendes, who was once one of the most powerful men in Brazil, will participate in the work of only one stadium, in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso. Very little for someone who led the consortium that made Itaipu, for example.
* At age 85, the president of Mendes Junior is collecting a debt of over $ 1 trillion of the Union in disputes dating from the 1980s and 1990s. This figure is divided between Chesf, the São Francisco Hydroelectric Company, the construction of the Itaparica Plant, and the Bank of Brazil, for business at the time he worked in Iraq with Saddam Hussein. "Chesf says that $ 1 trillion is undoable. True, but the action has to follow what the sentence determines, "says the contractor.
* From the Chesf’s case, which began in 1981, Mendes wants about $ 1 trillion. From Bank of Brazil, started in 1978, are over $ 2 billion in assumed debt intermediated by buying oil for the country. You can check out the full interview the entrepreneur granted to PODER magazine in this month’s issue, copies of which are beginning to reach newsstands on Friday.