Delcídio do Amaral explained

Delcídio do Amaral
Office:Senator for Mato Grosso do Sul
Term Start:1 February 2003
Term End:10 May 2016
Office1:State Secretary of Infrastructure and Housing of Mato Grosso do Sul
Term Start1:24 October 2001
Term End1:4 April 2002
Governor1:Zeca do PT
Predecessor1:Vander Loubet
Successor1:Maurício Gomes de Arruda
Office2:Minister of Mines and Energy
Term Start2:21 September 1994
Term End2:1 January 1995
President2:Itamar Franco
Predecessor2:Alexis Stepanenko
Successor2:Raimundo Mendes de Brito
Birth Name:Delcídio do Amaral Gómez
Birth Date:8 February 1955
Birth Place:Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Party:PRD (2023–present)
Profession:Electric engineer, politician

Delcídio do Amaral Gomez (born February 2, 1955) is a Brazilian politician. He worked at Shell and was nominated to Petrobras's Internacional Directory by president Fernando Henrique Cardoso where he worked until 2001 when he left Petrobras and start his relation with the Workers'Party https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2016/03/04/interna_politica,740126/parlamentar-comecou-no-psdb-e-foi-para-o-pt.shtml. Before his relation with Workers' party, Delcidio nominated a new director to Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Nestor Cervero. He represented Mato Grosso do Sul in the Federal Senate from 2003 to 2016 and before he was removed from office, he was the high-representative of the Workers' Party in the Brazilian Senate.[1] He was the speaker of his party in the Senate and the head of the Senate's economic affairs committee.[2] Amaral was arrested in November 2015 for allegedly taking kickbacks from Petrobras. A Supreme Court judge, Teori Zavascki, said he authorised the arrest after seeing evidence that Amaral had planned the flight of Petrobras's former international director,, in return for his silence. Ceveró was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison.[3]

On March 16, 2016 Amaral signed a plea bargain alleging involvement of other politicians in corruption scandals in Brazil. On May 10, 2016 the Senate approved by 74 votes in favor, the removal of Mr. Amaral from office for breaching parliamentary decorum.[4]

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  1. Web site: Senador Delcidio do Amaral. Federal Senate. March 19, 2014.
  2. Web site: Senior Brazilian senator and billionaire CEO both arrested for corruption . . . 26 November 2015 . 25 November 2015.
  3. News: Former Petrobras Executive Sentenced to Five Years in Prison: Nestor Cerveró sentence is most severe punishment yet in corruption scandal. Wall Street Journal. Luciana Magalhaes. Will Connors. May 26, 2015. April 12, 2017.
  4. Web site: Confira a íntegra do depoimento de Delcídio. 28 November 2015.