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Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faced yet more corruption allegations Wednesday with charges that he helped a nephew win a lucrative contract from construction giant Odebrecht, reports said. According to major Brazilian newspapers, federal police have filed formal charges accusing Lula of using his influence while in office to help his nephew Taiguara Rodrigues' company Exergia win the contract in Angola. The reports in Globo and Estadao de Sao Paolo said Rodrigues' company won the contract in 2012 from the Brazilian construction giant which is at the center of a sprawling corruption investigation shaking Brazilian politics.

 

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