Paulo Bernardo
Minister of Communications
In office
1 January 2011 – 1 January 2015
PresidentDilma Rousseff
Preceded byJosé Artur Filardi
Succeeded byRicardo Berzoini
Minister of Planning, Budget and Management
In office
22 March 2005 – 1 January 2011
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byNelson Machado
Succeeded byMiriam Belchior
Federal Deputy for Paraná
In office
1 February 2003 – 22 March 2005
In office
1 February 1991 – 1 February 1999
Personal details
Born
Paulo Bernardo Silva

(1952-03-10) 10 March 1952
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyPT (Since 1986)
Spouse
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(m. 1998; div. 2019)​
Children2

Paulo Bernardo Silva (born 10 March 1952) is a Brazilian politician, member of the Workers' Party (PT). He was Minister of Communications during the government of Dilma Rousseff and Minister of Planning during the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.[1]

Personal life

Paulo Bernardo da Silva was born in São Paulo, son of Alfredo Manoel da Silva and Sydnéa Bernardes da Silva. He is an employee of Bank of Brazil and was undergraduate in Geology for the University of Brasília (UnB). Bernardo was married to Federal Deputy Gleisi Hoffmann (PT).[2][3]

Political career

Bernardo joined politics through unionism as a member of the director's board of the Paraná Bank Officers Union. He was Federal Deputy from Paraná in 3 legislatures (1991–1995, 1995–1999 and 2003–2005).

In this period, he also held the offices of State Secretary of Finances of Mato Grosso do Sul between January 1999 and December 2000 and Municipal Secretary of Finances of Londrina between January 2001 and March 2002.[4]

Electoral results

Year Office Votes Result
1990 Federal Deputy from Paraná 9,644 Elect
1994 Federal Deputy from Paraná 20,459 Elect
2002 Federal Deputy from Paraná 72,831 Elect

Minister

On 22 March 2005, he licensed from his term as Federal Deputy to take office as Minister of Planning, Budget and Management, during the government of the then president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.[4]

He was also part of Dilma Rousseff's government since the beginning, as Minister of Communications.[5] One of the goals of his administration was to reinforce the National Broadband Plan.[6] In January 2015, in the ministerial reform of the transition for Dilma's second term, Ricardo Berzoini assumed Bernardo's seat.[7]

Controversies

Operation Car Wash

In March 2016, he was indicted by the Federal Police for passive corruption in Car Wash.[8][9]

Prison

He was arrested during one of the offshoots of Operation Car Wash, entitled Operation Brazil Cost of the Federal Police on 23 June 2016, being released a week later, on 29 June 2016, by Supreme Federal Court Justice Dias Toffoli, who considered the prison a "blatant illegal constraint".[10] Bernardo is the main suspect in the involvement of embezzlement of public resources in the Ministry of Planning.[11] Paulo Bernardo, according to the investigations, was connect to a bribery payment regarding contracts of services provision of computing by the company Consist by the cost of R$ 100 million (US$ 30,058,011.96 in 2015), between 2010 and 2015, emblezzed from federal government employees who did a payroll loan.[12]

On 1 August 2016, he was charged by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) for the crimes of criminal organization, passive corruption and money laundering, along with other 19 people. Paulo Bernardo is accused of receiving resources from a fraud scheme in the contract of management of payroll loans in the Ministry of Planning.[13] On 4 August, the Federal Justice accepted the MPF complaint and Paulo Bernardo became a defendant, accused of frauding a service of payroll loans to government employees.[14][15]

Defendant in the Supreme Court

On 27 September 2016, he became a defendant from another lawsuit in the Supreme Federal Court. The Second Group of the Supreme Court unanimously accepted the complaint presented by the Prosector-General of the Republic against Paulo Bernardo and his then wife Gleisi Hoffmann in Operation Car Wash.[16][17][18]

References

  1. ↑ de Carvalho, Ana Paula (1 August 2010). "Ministro do Planejamento é o primeiro entrevistado do Censo 2010" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  2. ↑ Ribeiro, Pedro (9 August 2019). "Gleisi anuncia separação de Paulo Bernardo" (in Portuguese). Paraná Portal. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  3. ↑ "Ex-"Casal 20", Gleisi Hoffmann e Paulo Bernardes estão separados" (in Portuguese). Tribuna Online. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Saiba mais sobre Paulo Bernardo, o novo ministro do Planejamento" (in Portuguese). Folha de S. Paulo. 22 March 2005. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  5. ↑ Dias, Marina (30 November 2010). "Paulo Bernardo será o novo ministro das Comunicações" (in Portuguese). Veja. Archived from the original on 8 November 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "Bernardo defende banda larga para todos e marco regulatório" (in Portuguese). Terra. 3 January 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  7. ↑ Resende, Thiago; Bitencourt, Rafael (2 January 2015). "De saída das Comunicações, Paulo Bernardo faz discurso político" (in Portuguese). Valor Econômico. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  8. ↑ "PF indicia Gleisi Hoffmann e Paulo Bernardo por corrupção passiva" (in Portuguese). R7. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  9. ↑ Borges, Laryssa (31 March 2016). "PF indicia Gleisi Hoffmann e Paulo Bernardo por corrupção" (in Portuguese). Veja. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  10. ↑ Megale, Bela; Carvalho, Mario Cesar; Falcão, Márcio; Colon, Leandro (29 June 2016). "Ministro do STF manda soltar Paulo Bernardo, petista preso há 6 dias" (in Portuguese). Folha de S. Paulo. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  11. ↑ "Ex-ministro Paulo Bernardo é preso pela PF" (in Portuguese). Uol. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  12. ↑ "Esquema desviou R$ 100 milhões de servidores que fizeram empréstimos" (in Portuguese). G1. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  13. ↑ Cruz, Elaine Patricia (1 August 2016). "MPF denuncia ex-ministro Paulo Bernardo por corrupção e organização criminosa" (in Portuguese). Agência Brasil. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  14. ↑ "Justiça aceita denúncia e ex-ministro Paulo Bernardo vira réu" (in Portuguese). G1. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  15. ↑ "Paulo Bernardo e mais 12 viram réus na Operação Custo Brasil" (in Portuguese). Uol. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  16. ↑ Ramalho, Renan (27 September 2016). "STF aceita denúncia e torna Gleisi e Paulo Bernardo réus na Lava Jato" (in Portuguese). G1. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  17. ↑ Richter, André (27 September 2016). "Gleisi Hoffmann e Paulo Bernardo viram réus na Lava Jato" (in Portuguese). Agência Brasil. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  18. ↑ Borges, Laryssa (27 September 2016). "Gleisi Hoffmann e Paulo Bernardo viram réus na Lava Jato" (in Portuguese). Veja. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
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