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Published on
September 3, 2001
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Brazilian court stops computer deal
The Brazilian education ministry’s purchase of 233,000 Windows-programmed personal computers from Microsoft has been blocked by local magistrates after a national newspaper revealed that the brother of the education minister is Bill Gates’s chief legal adviser in Brazil.   

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