Brasilia - A former Petrobras executive told a congressional hearing on Tuesday that Brazil's ruling Workers' Party received up to $200m skimmed from contracts with the state-run oil company, reiterating claims made in plea bargain testimony.
Pedro Barusco, a former executive at Petrobras' services division, said he had received payments as early as 1997 and in larger amounts starting in 2004; one year after the Workers' Party took office.
He said João Vaccari, treasurer for President Dilma Rousseff's political party, had received between $150m and $200m between 2003 and 2014, and based on the percentages of contracts he himself had received.