Dilma And The Petrobras Oil Scandal

Trying to look innocent is a huge part of being on trial. Dilma failed at this especially. Regarding Dilma and the Petrobras oil company scandal (starting in 2014), there are some holistic questions to be asked. The state run oil company was being used to launder government money and doctor spendings. Many government officials pocketed millions. Rousseff not being (in an official capacity) blamed/ charged for her part (if it exists) in the scandal despite impeachment suggests a concern in the evidence area. People, academics and experts inside and outside of the country have their suspicions of ‘foul play’ because of her position as the company’s chair at her time as president. It doesn't make much sense for her case; every suspected corrupt
politician/ official involved in this scandal has been a member of her political party. Including her campaign manager Joao Santana. which creates intrigue because most importantly, despite everything, Rousseff still remains a believer in her own innocence, thus an interesting case study. Rousseff denies her seemingly obvious involvement in the ‘Petrobras scandal’ and claims that in her time as president she only had only had aims on strengthening Brazils economy. Her and her minority of supporters (current time) make the claim that she is being used as a scape goat for the ‘real’ corrupt politicians, the likes of Cunha and temer. That the impeachment proceedings were tantamount to a coup d’ etat against her, that a trial related to the Petrobras scandal would be too risky even for them and their ‘house of cards style game. At the risk of a complete democratic collapse, the higher powers that be - being possibly either the real politicians or the ‘eminence grise’, realists, corporations, corrupt leaders jumbled in to one unelected ‘secret’ body - aren't bringing the Petrobras scandal in to any more light than it already has as it would effect the careers of too many and cause an unfixable problematic instability/ riot.