RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will soon be under investigation for a bribery scandal that led to the conviction of several of his former colleagues, reported Wednesday presse.
According to O Estado de S. Folha de S. Paulo and Paolo, the Attorney General Roberto Gurgel has taken this decision after press statements Marcos Valerio, a former public relations officer of the Workers Party in power (PT), himself sentenced in October to forty years prison.< / p>This
says Lula, president from 2003 to 2010, was aware of a procurement system of parliamentary votes ridden by those responsible for its formation. The former head of state démenti.
The Attorney General has decided not to address the matter himself and entrusted to a subordinate court. Since leaving office, Lula enjoys no immunité.
Twenty executives PT, sometimes close to Lula, were sentenced in the fall after the largest trial for corruption case ever held in the pays.
The scandal caused by the revelation of the extent of the network has weakened President Dilma Rousseff, also after the Party travailleurs.
Marcos Valerio accuses the former president had authorized the granting by public banks lending to PT for paying bribes bribes to parlementaires.
While the popularity of Lula, who has not ruled out to represent the presidential election in 2014, remains very high, the trial tarnished his image and his opponents believe that the people involved in the network were too close the former head of state to have been unaware that his existence.
Those sentenced include José Dirceu, former Chief of Staff of Lula and the PT founder, José Genoino, party chairman at the time of the facts, revealed in 2005, and Delubio Soares, its trésorier.
Ana Flor and Anthony Boadle, Julien Pascal Liétout Dury and the service français
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