Weekly Report - 18 December 2014 (WR-14-50)

BRAZIL | André Vargas stripped of office. On 10 December, André Vargas, a former congressional deputy from the ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) was stripped of his parliamentary status over his links with Alberto Yousseff, the black market money dealer at the centre of ‘Operation Car Wash’, the investigation into the corruption scandal at the state-dominated oil giant Petrobras.