パン店で１日に１４０万円　前大統領の公務用カード明細公開　ブラジル

【ブラジリアＡＦＰ＝時事】手頃なレストランで２万１０００米ドル（約２７０万円）以上、ベーカリーで１日に１万７００ドル（約１４０万円）。ブラジルのジャイル・ボルソナロ前大統領の公務用クレジットカードの明細が公開され、浪費ぶりが物議を醸している。（写真はボルソナロ氏）
　ボルソナロ氏は大統領在職時、大統領の公務用クレジットカードの明細を含む公的情報を１００年間非公開とした。しかし、後任のルイス・イナシオ・ルラ・ダシルバ大統領はこの規定を撤廃。政府ウェブサイトに１３日、カード明細が掲載された。
　それによると、ボルソナロ氏が大統領を務めた４年間で総額２７６０万レアル（約６億９０００万円）以上が使われていた。公務用クレジットカードはボルソナロ氏のほか、２１人が使うことができた。
　同氏は公務用カードは「一銭も」使っていないとたびたび主張していた。だが、ニュースサイトＵＯＬの分析によると、２０１９年、２０年、２１年の休暇期間中、計２３万５０００ドル（約３０００万円）以上が使われていた。
　このほか、ガソリンスタンドで１回に１万４０００ドル（約１８０万円）近く、サンパウロ州の海沿いのリゾート、グアルジャの高級ホテルを数回訪れた際には計２８万６０００ドル（約３７００万円）を使っていた。
　特に食事代で高額出費が目立つ。ロライマ州ボアビスタのレストランでは、１回の訪問で２万１０００ドル以上の支払いがあった。これは、この店の最も高価な料理であるローストチキン２０００皿分に相当する。
　リオデジャネイロのベーカリーでは、４年間で計７万１０００ドル（約９００万円）以上が使われた。うち約１万１０００ドル（約１４０万円）はボルソナル氏の息子の結婚式翌日に使われたものだった。リオの通りをボルソナロ氏の支持者がバイクで行進した前日にも多額の支払いがあった。
　アイスクリーム店では計１６００ドル（約２０万円）が支払われている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/01/16-15:53）

More than $21,000 splurged at a modest restaurant -- $10,700 spent at a bakery in a single day. The public release Friday of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's official credit card expenditures is raising eyebrows in Brazil.
More than 27.6 million reais -- more than $5 million at today's exchange rate -- was charged to the far-right president's card during his four-year term, according to account statements published Friday on a government website.
Unlike his predecessors, Bolsonaro threw a 100-year secrecy veil over presidential credit card expenditures among other official information, which successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has begun lifting.
Bolsonaro and 21 members of his team had access to the card.
Adjusted for inflation, the full amount charged to the card is almost half that spent during Lula's first four-year term beginning in 2003 -- though he used the card mainly for accommodations while traveling abroad.
Bolsonaro had frequently claimed not to have charged a single penny to the card.
But analysis of the newly-opened records by the Uol news website found that today's equivalent of more than $235,000 was spent by Bolsonaro while on vacation in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Nearly $14,000 was spent on a single visit to a petrol station, and another $286,000 on several visits to a luxury hotel in Guaruja, a seaside resort near Sao Paulo.
According to the website G1, the hotel housed members of Bolsonaro's entourage, while he stayed at a military complex.
Food expenses were among the most astonishing billed items.
On one visit to a restaurant in Boa Vista in the Amazonian state of Roraima, the presidential card was used to pay a bill of more than $21,000.
That would be enough for an order of 2,000 plates of the restaurant's most expensive dish: roast chicken with a side starch, which costs a little less than $10.
The card was also used to charge more than more than $71,000 over four years at a bakery in Rio de Janeiro.
Of this amount, almost $11,000 was spent in one go: on the day after the wedding of Bolsonaro's son. It also happened to be the eve of a motorbike rally organized by Bolsonaro supporters through the streets of Rio.
A total of more than $1,600 was spent at ice cream shops.