Brazil Senators May Axe Corruption Investigation Targeting Them
Brazil Senators May Axe Corruption Investigation Targeting Them
Published 25 October 2016
The Senate politicized Operation Car Wash to torpedo the Workers' Party in the next election. Now that senators face prosecution they want it derailed.
Brazil’s Senate may be set to launch an inquiry into the so-called “excesses” of the country’s flagship corruption investigations, known as Operation Car Wash, that have targeted dozens of politicians and business elites for bribery and fraud linked to the state-run oil company, Petrobras, a Brazilian journalist reported Tuesday.
Brazilian author and journalist Laurez Cerqueira, who also works in the Congress, wrote in a blog post that the Senate is a “step away from” setting up a special parliamentary commission to investigate Operation Car Wash, highlighting political elites’ discontent with the anti-corruption campaign that was first revealed in damning wiretaps earlier this year.
“People close to the president of the Senate are saying that (Senate head) Renan Calheiros is unhappy with Judge Sergio Moro, with the Minister of Justice Alexandre Moraes, and even more with (Attorney General) Rodrigo Janot,” Cerqueira wrote, pointing specifically to the recent detention of the Senate police chief and three other officers for thwarting corruption investigations as a flashpoint.
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