Ex-health ministry director in Brazil accused of perjury by Covid panel
8 July 2021
By AFP
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A former director of Brazil’s health ministry was arrested Wednesday while testifying before a Senate commission investigating how the government of President Jair Bolsonaro has handled the Covid-19 pandemic.
Senator Omar Aziz, who chairs the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (ICC), ordered the arrest of the ministry’s former logistics director Roberto Dias on charges of perjury.
“He’s been lying since this morning, I gave him the opportunity (to tell the truth), I asked him several times,” Aziz said.
“I do not accept that the ICC is becoming a farce. We have more than 527,000 dead from this pandemic and the guys are doing deals with vaccines,” he said, visibly annoyed.