Bolsonaro Charged Over $5 Million To Govt Credit Card

Agence France-Presse reports:

More than $21,000 splurged at a modest restaurant — $10,700 spent at a bakery in a single day. The public release Friday of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s official credit card expenditures is raising eyebrows in Brazil.

More than 27.6 million reais — more than $5 million at today’s exchange rate — was charged to the far-right president’s card during his four-year term, according to account statements published Friday on a government website.

Unlike his predecessors, Bolsonaro threw a 100-year secrecy veil over presidential credit card expenditures among other official information, which successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has begun lifting. Bolsonaro had frequently claimed not to have charged a single penny to the card.

Read the full article. The above-cited $21,000 charge would have paid for more than 2000 plates of the restaurant’s most expensive dish.

More than $21,000 splurged at a modest restaurant — $10,700 spent at a bakery in a single day. The public release of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro’s official credit card expenditures is raising eyebrows in Brazil. https://t.co/PnY6OaMTSi

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