The Financial Times and The Guardian report that France Telecom director Jean Francois Pontal is set to become chief executive.

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Mr Pontal would be in charge of day-to-day running of the business, while Mr Snook, currently chief executive, was expected to concentrate on broader strategic issues.

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They accuse the landless group Mr Rainha was leading in Pontal de Paranapanema of channelling money from the government's National Institute for Agrarian Reform away from the landless families for whom it was intended.

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