Paulo Maluf
Paulo Salim Maluf (born December 3, 1931 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian politician .
Life
Paulo Maluf was born in São Paulo on December 3, 1931, the son of the Lebanese immigrant Salim Farah Maluf and his wife Maria Estéfano Maluf. He is married to Sylvia Lutfalla Maluf and has four children and eleven grandchildren. In 1954 he obtained a degree in civil engineering from the Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo .
Political life
He took his first public office at the age of 36 in 1967, as President of the Caixa Econômica Federal. Until then, he had devoted himself to family business.
He left this office in 1969 to take over as mayor of the city council of São Paulo, then with 6 million inhabitants. Its administration prepared the city for urban development, which began with a surge in population in the early 1970s. During his term of office the construction of highways and expressways, 60 bridges and the riverside roads on the Pinheiros and Tietê rivers , on which more than 700,000 vehicles per day now operate. These road constructions prevented the traffic chaos in the city, which at that time only had to cope with 500,000 vehicles. In 2018 there were more than 5.7 million, as on average every second inhabitant owns a vehicle.
In 1971 Maluf gave up the mayor's office and took over the post of State Secretary for Transport, which he held for four years. He was then elected President of the Trade Association of São Paulo, from which he took leave in 1978 to attend a party congress that would elect the future governor of the state of São Paulo . In this historic party congress, he beat the candidate who had been supported by the central government up to that point and was elected as the only candidate for governor of a state that did not have the support of the military government from Brasília at the time.
In 1982 he ran for the Federal Chamber of Commerce (Câmara Federal) and was elected with 672,729 votes, the highest number of votes ever achieved for a Federal MP in Brazilian politics. He held this office from the 53rd to 55th legislative period until August 22, 2018. In 1989 he was a presidential candidate for Brazil, nominated by the PDS.
In 1993 he was elected mayor of São Paulo for the second time - with 53% of the vote . As a result, he turned the city into a construction site to make up for lost time in the previous legislative period. In this, large structural projects had come to a standstill as the city's continuous growth was ignored. He held this office until 1996. According to a 1996 poll, the city's residents consider him the best mayor São Paulo has ever had. This view was also confirmed in a 2011 survey.
Maluf changed party affiliation several times: from 1967 to 1980 he was a member of the ARENA , from 1980 to 1992 of the PDS , from 1992 to 1995 of the PPR and since 2003 of the progressive party PPB or now renamed PP.
Investigations
Paulo Maluf is considered the epitome of corruption in Brazil. In September 2005, he and his son Flávio Maluf came for a few weeks in custody .
Since 2004, the Brazilian public prosecutor's office has been investigating the transfer of 100 million US dollars from accounts in Switzerland - including at UBS - to the City of London .
In 2007 he was charged in New York for stealing $ 11.6 million from a public works project for which he was the mayor of Sao Paulo. At that time, excessive bills were issued. Between 1997 and 1999, around 140 million US dollars flowed into an account over which Maluf had power of attorney. The funds were routed through Safra National Bank in New York to accounts in Jersey controlled by Paulo Maluf. As a result of these charges, Maluf was put on the wanted list by Interpol for embezzlement of state funds and money laundering , with the result that he is threatened with arrest in 181 countries.
In August 2012 it became known that Maluf was illegally transferring more than 200 million US dollars from Geneva to the British tax haven Jersey with the participation of Deutsche Bank - public money of the city of São Paulo, from 1993 to 1996, from his time as mayor. The city of Sao Paulo is currently considering suing Deutsche Bank for repayment of the money. The result of the investigations and the expected conviction of Maluf are seen as an important signal to those in Brazil who are transferring funds to tax havens.
Since Maluf was re-elected as a MP, he enjoys parliamentary immunity . The election gives him the right to a special court, which, however, has never convicted a politician in Brazil in the past 50 years. Some of his acts fall under the statute of limitations. In addition, Brazilian law provides for further exceptions.
Web links
- Biografia do Deputado (a) Federal PAULO MALUF. In: leg.br. Portal da Câmara dos Deputados(Brazilian Portuguese).
Individual evidence
- ↑ São Paulo - Frota de veículos. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed September 27, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Deputado Paulo Maluf. Câmara dos Deputados, accessed September 27, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Corruption in Brazil - pathetic protest
- ↑ Chronology of the allegations against Maluf (English) ( Memento from April 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ New York Times, March 9, 2007 (English)
- ↑ wanted page at Interpol
- ↑ Publication of the case by the World Bank ( Memento of May 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sao Paulo: prefeitura across processar Deustsche Bank
Governors of the State of São Paulo (since 1889)| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maluf, Paulo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maluf, Paulo Salim (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São Paulo |