Brazil Congressional Chiefs Named in Petrobras Investigation
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Brazil’s Supreme Court gave the green light to investigate the heads of both houses of Congress while ruling out a probe into President Dilma Rousseff in the country’s largest corruption scandal.
Renan Calheiros and Eduardo Cunha, the chief of the Senate and lower house respectively, are among senior politicians to be investigated by the prosecutor general. The inquiry is related to an alleged kickback scheme dubbed Carwash that may have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA to political parties. The Supreme Court press office published the list of names by e-mail on Friday.