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Weekly Report - 26 April 2012 (WR-12-16)
BRAZIL: The return of the scandal agenda
The corruption scandal centred on businessman Carlos Augusto Ramos (‘Carlinhos Cachoeira’, or 'Charlie Waterfall') grows bigger by the day. Fernando Cavendish and Carlos Pacheco, the owner and director respectively of Brazil’s construction giant Delta Construções, stepped aside from the company on 25 April. That same day, the federal police in the state of Goiâs, acting in conjunction with the federal public ministry, arrested and threw in jail a former company director, Claudio Abreu, and issued detention orders against several other company members, civil servants and politicians in the states of Anápolis, Goiâs, São Paulo and the federal capital district of Brasília.
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