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(FILE) Photo composition showing former Treasurer of the Workers Party (PT) Delubio Soares(L to R) on 20 July 2005 in Brasilia; former Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Government Jose Dirceu in Brasilia on August 2, 2005 and former President of the Workers Party Jose Genoino in Brasilia on September 13, 2005. Brazil’s Supreme Court on October 9, 2012 found Dirceu and Genoino guilty of «active corruption.» Brazil’s biggest ever bribery trial –known as Menselao (big monthly payments)– began August 2 with dozens of former officials facing vote-buying charges in a case that could tarnish the legacy of popular ex-leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. AFP PHOTO/EVARISTO SA