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Weekly Report - 29 October 2015 (WR-15-43)
BRAZIL: Lula’s son under scrutiny as probes widen
Alongside ‘Operation Lava Jato’, the official investigation into the corruption scandal at the state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, Brazil’s federal police is also involved in another sensitive probe: ‘Operation Zealots’. The focus of this investigation is the Conselho Administrativo de Recursos Fiscais (Carf), the body within the finance ministry that hears appeals on tax disputes. A number of its members are suspected of taking bribes to rule favourably on contentious tax cases. On 26 October, investigators raided the offices of Luís Cláudio Lula da Silva, son of former president Lula da Silva (2003-2010), as part of Operation Zealots.
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