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Weekly Report - 25 June 2015 (WR-15-25)

BRAZIL: Ripples of ‘Operation Car Wash’ lap closer to Lula

“At this point the former president is not part of the investigation,” Carlos Fernando dos Santos Lima, a lead prosecutor in ‘Operation Car Wash’, said on 22 June, in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters, when asked about former president Lula da Silva (2003-2010). Much of Brazil’s mainstream media is hostile to the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), meaning that the arrest of Marcelo Odebrecht, the CEO of one of the biggest construction companies in Latin America, and a friend of Lula’s, inevitably led to questions about whether the former president might be next. Lima’s response, and the code-name for the latest phase of the operation “Erga Omnes” (the law is valid for all), may not have entirely put Lula’s mind at rest.

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