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One of Brazil's top politicians was embarrassed to discover that the £3,000 Rolex he donated to charity turned out to be a fake.
Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu donated the watch to the Zero Hunger programme to relieve poverty in Brazil.
The government-sponsored charity's bankers revealed the watch was a fake after having it valued.
Mr Dirceu had received the Rolex as a gift from another politician, MP Jose Carlos Martinez, earlier this year but donated it to Zero Hunger after he forgot to declare the gift.
Mr Martinez told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that he had been cheated by the person who sold the watch to him.
He said: "When Jose Dirceu called me and said that my gift was fake, I apologised and said I was going to buy a proper Rolex watch and donate it to Zero Hunger.
"I made a bad purchase and I'm very upset. I have thrown the fake watch away. I paid twice for the same thing."
Chief of Staff Jose Dirceu donated the watch to the Zero Hunger programme to relieve poverty in Brazil.
The government-sponsored charity's bankers revealed the watch was a fake after having it valued.
Mr Dirceu had received the Rolex as a gift from another politician, MP Jose Carlos Martinez, earlier this year but donated it to Zero Hunger after he forgot to declare the gift.
Mr Martinez told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that he had been cheated by the person who sold the watch to him.
He said: "When Jose Dirceu called me and said that my gift was fake, I apologised and said I was going to buy a proper Rolex watch and donate it to Zero Hunger.
"I made a bad purchase and I'm very upset. I have thrown the fake watch away. I paid twice for the same thing."