Brazil’s Lula: “Maximum Commander” of Petrobras’ corruption scandal

By: Alberto Armendáriz LA NACION | September 14, 2016, 8:39 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO. Brazil’s judiciary is closing in on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. For the first time yesterday, the federal prosecutors who are investigating the multimillion-dollar Petrobras corruption case, formally charged the popular Brazilian ex-president (2003-2010) of leading the state-run oil company’s graft scheme.

Deltan Dallagnol, lead prosecutor of the so-called Operation Car Wash, declared that “Lula was the maximum commander of Petrobras’ corruption scheme,” during a press conference in Curitiba, the center of the ongoing investigation that shook the Brazilian political and business world a little longer than two years ago.