BRAZIL’S MAJOR CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION NOW UNDER RISK

Brazil’s Lavo Jato investigation, the biggest corruption probe in the world today is at serious risk of ending in frustration, at least to observers wanting to see Brazilian politics and business cleaned from top to bottom. Mauricio Savarese reports from São Paulo.   The multi-billion dollar bribery case at state-run oil company Petrobras which is at the heart of the Lavo Jato scandal has destroyed the reputation of some of the country’s biggest construction companies and many senior political leaders. But with the impeachment of left-wing President Dilma ...


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