# Delcídio do Amaral

> Delcídio do Amaral Gomez is a Brazilian politician. He worked at Shell and was nominated to Petrobras's Internacional Directory by president Fernando Henrique Cardoso where he worked until 2001 when he left Petrobras and start his relation with the Workers'Party. Before his relation with Workers' party, Delcidio nominated a new director to Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Nestor Cervero. He represented Mato Grosso do Sul in the Federal Senate from 2003 to 2016 and before he was removed from office, he was the high-representative of the Workers' Party in the Brazilian Senate. He was the speaker of his party in the Senate and the head of the Senate's economic affairs committee. Amaral was arrested in November 2015 for allegedly taking kickbacks from Petrobras. A Supreme Court judge, Teori Zavascki, said he authorised the arrest after seeing evidence that Amaral had planned the flight of Petrobras's former international director, Nestor Cerveró, in return for his silence. Ceveró was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison.

*Brazilian politician*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/delcidio-do-amaral

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Brazil
- **Born:** 1955-02-08
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 50.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 21.9 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 5.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 65.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 35.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Delcídio do Amaral](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delc%C3%ADdio_do_Amaral)
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- [Delcídio do Amaral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delc%C3%ADdio_do_Amaral)
- [Wikiquote](https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Delc%C3%ADdio_do_Amaral)
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- [Delcídio do Amaral](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delc%C3%ADdio_do_Amaral)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10264823)

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