Sentence examples for graft scheme from inspiring English sources

"The Petrobras graft scheme aimed at keeping the Workers' party in power by criminal means".

He allegedly received a US$5m kickback in the graft scheme uncovered at Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as Petrobras is formally known.

The findings tie Mr. da Silva, who is universally known as Lula, to the colossal graft scheme engulfing the national oil company, Petrobras.

Workers party senator Delcídio do Amaral previously testified that the graft scheme was set up during the government of Rousseff's predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The police said they had charged Nevenka Tudjman, 48, with acting as an illegal agent, and added that it was in connection with a $1.1 million graft scheme.

Mr. da Silva will also stand trial in a separate case on charges of obstructing the investigation of the graft scheme around Petrobras, which involved about $3 billion in bribes.

Means claimed that Daugherty was the beneficiary of several graft schemes.

But Mr. Temer's centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, which anchored the Workers Partyy's governing coalition for more than a decade, was also deeply enmeshed in the colossal graft schemes staining Brazil's political system in recent years.

His former vice president has also been jailed in the multimillion-dollar graft and fraud scheme.

But the Republicans' blitzkrieg was breathtaking as they dredged up an innocuous House bill, grafted their remapping scheme onto it, and rushed it to the floor without any notice to the public.

Meanwhile, a probe into an enormous graft and money laundering scheme involving state-owned oil giant Petrobras -- an investigation dubbed "Operation Car Wash" -- has been connected to many members of the governing Workers Partyy (PT), including Silva himself. .