Ribeiro is being investigated for corruption, embezzlement, influence peddling and alleged involvement in a fraudulent scheme to divert funds from the Ministry of Education, according to information from the G1 news portal.
Bolsonaro, however, has asserted that “he continues to believe in Milton.” “If something comes to light you have to answer for your actions“, he stated before insisting that the former minister “should not have been arrested.”
At the end of March, Ribeiro left his position as head of Education amid suspicions of corruption within the Ministry after the newspaper ‘Folha de Sao Paulo’ leaked a recording in which he could be heard assuring a meeting with mayors that, at the request of Bolsonaro, it is two evangelical pastors – Gilmar Santos and Arilton Moura – who decide how to distribute the budget of the Ministry’s National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE).
As a result of this and other publications that referred to a kind of parallel cabinet within the Ministry of Education, several mayors and local authorities denounced that Santos and Moura had demanded bribes in exchange for releasing these items from the FNDE.
Source: Ambito
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