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Weekly Report - 23 April 2009 (WR-09-16)
BRAZIL: Division in congress over bugging enquiry
The latest testimonies of the federal police constable, Protógenes
Queiroz, and the banker, Daniel Dantas, to a congressional committee
investigating illegal wiretapping have revealed deep divisions among
government-allied congressmen. The testimonies failed to cast new light on the
mystery surrounding a federal police investigation into Dantas's obscure links
with past and present federal administrations. But the enquiry seems to have
gone on for long enough to prompt the government to step in and end it.
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