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Weekly Report - 16 July 2015 (WR-15-28)
BRAZIL: Senators bridle at latest ‘Operation Car Wash’ searches
Renan Calheiros, the president of the federal senate, said on 15 July that the upper chamber was studying what kind of lawsuit it could file against the federal police at the supreme court over the latest searches carried out by law enforcement officers as part of the embezzlement investigation into the state-owned energy company Petrobras. Calheiros, from the nominally government-allied Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB), expressed indignation at recent swoops on the homes of former president Fernando Collor de Mello (1990-1992), from the Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB); Fernando Bezerra Coehlo, from the Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB), and Ciro Nogueira, from the Partido Progressista (PP). The impounding of three of Collor’s luxury cars, including a red Ferrari, dominated the front pages of the Brazilian media on 14 July.
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