quarta-feira, 14 de maio de 2014

Custos da Copa

Five sad and shocking facts about World Cup corruption in Brazil

Brasilia’s World Cup stadium is the second most expensive in the world. (Eraldo Peres/AP)
Brasilia’s World Cup stadium is the second-most expensive in the world. (Eraldo Peres/AP)
This is not a feel-good story. With just more than a month until the World Cup kicks off in Brazil, the Associated Press came out with a scathing report today outlining the outsize corruption and skyrocketing costs that have marred the country’s preparations. Here are the five saddest and most shocking things we learned:
1) One of the priciest stadiums in the world has a dim future. The Mane Garrincha World Cup stadium in Brasilia, a city of roughly 2.5 million people, cost about $900 million in public funds to build, which makes it the second-most expensive soccer stadium ever. (The first is England’s Wembley Stadium at $1.25 billion.) The budget was supposed to be $300 million, but alleged fraud tripled it, the AP reports. Perhaps it’s an investment for Brasilia’s hometown team? Nope. Brasilia doesn’t have a major professional soccer team.
2) The price discrepancies are laughably ridiculous. An auditor’s report allotted $4,700 to cover the costs of transportation of prefabricated grandstands to Brasilia’s stadium. But the construction consortium charged the government $1.5 million, the AP reports. That’s  a 318 times the original cost. Or, in wackier terms, a 31,000 percent mark-up.
3) Politicians and politics have a lot to do with the problems. Andrade Gutierrez, the construction conglomerate that’s been awarded stakes in contracts that total about one-fourth of the World Cup’s $11.5 billion price tag, contributed $73,180 to 2008′s municipal elections, the AP reports. In 2012, after it was known which cities would host the World Cup, the company’s political contributions soared to $37.1 million. That’s a 50,000 percent increase.

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