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Chilean Former President Bachelet Denies Links to Brazil's Car Wash Scandal

Reuters

   SANTIAGO - Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. human rights chief, has denied
   claims by a Brazilian businessman under investigation in Brazil's
   massive Car Wash scandal that he paid $141,000 to cover debts incurred
   by her 2013 Chilean presidential campaign.

   Leo Pinheiro is reported to have told prosecutors as part of a plea
   bargain that his engineering firm, OAS, paid the money at the
   suggestion of the former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

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