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Weekly Report - 12 March 2015 (WR-15-10)
BRAZIL: Politicians implicated in Petrobras scandal named
On 6 March Brazil’s supreme court finally lifted the seal on the list of politicians whom the attorney general, Rodrigo Janot, wishes to investigate over the corruption scandal afflicting the State-owned oil company Petrobras. Forty-seven politicians, from six different parties, will face further scrutiny ahead of possible criminal charges. The worst offender, by some margin, was the Partido Progressista (PP), followed by the Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB) and then the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). Dispiritingly, from the government’s perspective, only one opposition senator from the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileiro (PSDB) was included on the list.
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