Brazil's dictatorship 'rigged fatal crash of ex-president Juscelino Kubitschek'
Truth commission says it can prove military rigged 'crash' in which top politician died
A car accident that killed Brazil's former president, Juscelino Kubitschek, was rigged by the country's military dictatorship, says a new investigation.
Kubitschek, remembered as the president who moved the capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia, died on the motorway between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on August 22, 1976.
But suspicions have swirled for decades that he was the victim of foul play by the then-military dictator Ernesto Geisel.
In a report released on Tuesday, Sao Paulo's truth commission said it had evidence to show that Kubitschek was killed in a plot to remove him as a potential challenger for the presidency.
Shortly before his death, Kubitschek, who was president from 1956 to 1961, had just had his political rights restored, which meant he was eligible to run again for office.
The Sao Paulo truth commission, made up of city councillors, said it had more than 90 items of proof to back up its claim, including faked records, procedural errors and contradictions in official reports.
Investigators said a bus driver testified that he was offered a cash payment for declaring that he ran into Kubitschek's vehicle, which he refused.