BRAZIL’S MAMMOTH CORRUPTION PROBE DISCREDITED AFTER 7 YEARS
May 1st, 2021
Brazil’s Chief Justice Luiz Fux refused to acknowledge the death of the sprawling Lava Jato (Car Wash) corruption probe in a historic full court session on April 23, declaring: “This is not the end of Car Wash.”
However, he might have been forgiven for accepting that these investigations were at an end. That day the country’s Supreme Federal Court annulled corruption and money laundering convictions against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the biggest trophy scored by Lava Jato’s aggressive prosecutors. It was also only one of the several ...
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