Rio de Janeiro: Testifying from jail, former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as told investigators that he is unaware of any vote-buying scheme used to secure the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Photo: APLula, who in April began serving a 12-year sentence for corruption, gave video testimony on Tuesday, local time, from the southern city of Curitiba.
Authorities in Rio are investigating what they have called an international corruption scheme aimed at buying votes. Last year, police raided the home of former Brazilian Olympic Committee president Carlos Nuzman. Nuzman and several others in Brazil and France were arrested in "Operation Unfair Play."
Former Rio state Governor Sergio Cabral, already jailed in a separate corruption case, is also being investigated.
Lula, who is not a defendant in the case, was president of Brazil in 2009 when Rio won the bid.