Delcídio do Amaral Gomez (born 2 February 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'Part

Before his relation with Workers' party, Delcidio nominated a new director to Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Nestor Cervero. He represented

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in the Federal Senate from 2003 to 2016 and before he was removed from office, he was the high-representative of the

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in the Brazilian Senate. He was the speaker of his party in the Senate and the head of the Senate's economic affairs committee. Amaral was arrested in November 2015 for allegedly taking kickbacks from

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. A

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judge,

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, 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

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and sentenced to five years in prison. On 16 March 2016 Amaral signed a

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alleging involvement of other politicians in corruption scandals in Brazil. On 10 May 2016 the Senate approved by 74 votes in favor, the removal of Mr. Amaral from office for breaching parliamentary decorum.

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, - Living people 1955 births Members of the Federal Senate (Brazil) Democratic Renewal Party (Brazil) politicians People from Corumbá Brazilian Labour Party (1981) politicians {{Brazil-Senator-stub

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