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Brazil leader to fire Petrobras execs, says confident in CEO

Published: 22 Dec 2014 - 10:38 pm | Last Updated: 18 Jan 2022 - 04:57 pm


 

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Monday that she would shake up the board of directors at state-owned oil giant Petrobras but keep the scandal-plagued firm's chief executive, Graca Foster.

"Graca is an ethical person," said Rousseff, who brushed off concerns over falling oil prices battering the country's largest company, where investigators say some $4 billion were skimmed off inflated contracts over the course of a decade and filtered to corrupt politicians, including from the ruling Workers' Party.

AFP