 The fraud was exposed and the journalists from Rede Globo were harassed in the streets of the city of Rio de Janeiro.Rede Globo, in turn, argued that it "never hired Proconsult" and its results were based on numbers from "O Globo" newspaper (part of Globo Organizations) who were claimed to be responsible for conducting an aggregate vote count from electoral maps 
.Under the military government, NEC Brazil, a subsidiary of the Japanese NEC Corporation, was forced to nationalized its corporate stock.