By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – More than 41 percent of donations made to political candidates in this year’s October municipal elections were irregular, says Brazil’s Electoral Court (TSE). In terms of values, the TSE announced that R$1.3 billion out of a total of R$3.4 billion of donations are being questioned.
According to the TSE, an investigation by the court found that approximately 403,000 donations of a total of 965,000 registered some irregularities.
Through cross-referencing donor data with data from IRS records, it was discovered that many . . .
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