Santander also hired Palocci.
Spanish bank is the first financial institution to confirm the purchase of services from the company of the Minister of the Civil House.
247 – The newspaper Estado de S. Paulo reports in its edition today that Santander bank, one of the largest in the world and the third largest private bank in the country, also paid for the services of Projeto, the consulting firm of Antônio Palocci.
However, due to confidentiality clauses, the bank does not disclose the amounts paid or the dates of the contracts. It only states that Palocci, hired when he was a federal deputy, was paid to give lectures on the macroeconomic situation to the institution's executives.
The Estadão newspaper also reports that Santander has become Petrobras' preferred partner in a financing program for the state-owned company's suppliers. And that it obtained unprecedented financing of US$250 million from BNDES, known as "Spanish leasing," for the acquisition of six Embraer jets.