Hissam Hussein Dehaini, who's 65 years old and the big boss of Araucária City, down south in Brazil, tied the knot with a girl 49 years younger than him - the legal age to get hitched in Brazil.
People went bonkers, not just because of the age gap, but because they reckon he's being corrupt and showing nepotism. Apparently, the Prosecutor's Office is now checking out whether the appointment of the girl's mother is legit or dodgy, and whether there's any corruption going on in Araucária.
Oddity Central reported that according to Brazilian law, minors over the age of 16 can get legally married only with the approval of their parents, so the appointment of the young bride’s mother to a well-paid position within the municipality’s administration on April 13 was considered by many a bribe of sorts. Marilene Rode was already an official within the Ministry of Education, but with a much lower salary and less influence.
The news of Mayor Dehaini’s appointment of his mother-in-law on the day after his controversial wedding sparked a massive scandal in Araucária, a municipality in the metropolitan area of Curitiba. This scandal grew even larger when it was discovered that the marriage had been made official by Hilda Lukalski Seima, as head of the city’s Civil Registry. Selma is also deputy mayor, as she and Dehaini both ran for elections in 2016 and 2020.
In response to the accusations, the mayor’s office issued a statement that inflamed spirits
even more, claiming that the appointment was a “discretionary act of the head of the Executive Power, who considered that the official meets the necessary conditions for the exercise of the position, since she has 26 years of experience in public service.”
