Nelson Piquet will have used Pix, the system for making automatic transfers through a smartphone, to make a donation of 501,000 reais to the campaign of Jair Bolsonaro, who is seeking to be re-elected for the second term as president of Brazil. At the current exchange rate, these 501 thousand reais represent around 99.3 thousand euros.
The information is provided by the Brazilian newspaper Estadão, which specifies that the information on this donation is registered in the Superior Electoral Court, which made the donation public this Friday. Through this donation, the former Formula 1 driver will become the largest individual donor to the Bolsonaro campaign, estimates the Brazilian press.
In total, Bolsonaro will have already received almost 1.2 million reais, about 232 thousand euros, from four people. In addition to the former pilot Piquet, Gilson Lari Trennepohl will have donated 350 thousand reais (about 69 thousand euros), Ronaldo Venceslau Rodrigues da Cunha with 60 thousand reais (11.9 thousand euros) and Sergio Cardoso de Almeida Filho with 30 thousand reais (5,900 euros). ). ). The donors of the difference, around 230 thousand reais, says Estadão, were not revealed.
This donation from Nelson Piquet comes after the three-time world champion’s company, Autotrac Comércio e Comunicações, received an amount of almost 6.7 million reais from the Brazilian government at the beginning of the month. This amount refers to a contract signed in 2019 with the fleet monitoring technology company, according to Estadão. According to the Brazilian press, the amount was granted to the company, despite the fact that it has a debt of 6,300 reais linked to the payment of taxes.
Piquet was embroiled in controversy in late June when he used a racist term to talk about Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton.
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Source: Observadora
