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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) announced Thursday that they found over 90,000 suspected illegal donations in the campaign for October's municipal elections.
According to the TSE, the suspicious donations amount to 300.8 million reais (about 92.3 million U.S. dollars), which represent some 20 percent of the 1.5 billion reais (about 0.46 billion U.S. dollars) political donations from the beginning of the campaign on Aug. 16 until Sept. 26.
Among the suspicious donations, some were made in the name of dead people or by people without enough economic strength, investigators of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) found.
Under Brazilian law, a person can only make a political donation of up to 10 percent of their declared income.
The TSE is concerned that donations above the limit are actually from corporations, which are banned.
In addition to the donations, the TCU also found suspicious contracts between politicians and service providers.
Several candidates hired unqualified companies -- their relatives' companies or unregistered companies -- to provide services. According to the TCU, those contracts are worth 9.9 million reais (about 3 million U.S. dollars).
