Al Jazeera News :
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been charged in a money-laundering investigation led by Sao Paulo state prosecutors.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the state prosecutors declined to specify the charges, but state investigators said they suspect Lula’s family owned an undeclared luxury beachfront apartment in the city of Guaruja. Federal investigators echoed those allegations after they detained Lula for questioning in police custody on Friday, fanning a political crisis that has rattled his successor, President Dilma Rousseff. Lula has denied any wrongdoing and rejected the idea that he owned the luxury condo in Guaruja built by engineering group OAS, one of the conglomerates snared in a vast corruption scandal tied to state-run oil company Petrobras.
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been charged in a money-laundering investigation led by Sao Paulo state prosecutors.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the state prosecutors declined to specify the charges, but state investigators said they suspect Lula’s family owned an undeclared luxury beachfront apartment in the city of Guaruja. Federal investigators echoed those allegations after they detained Lula for questioning in police custody on Friday, fanning a political crisis that has rattled his successor, President Dilma Rousseff. Lula has denied any wrongdoing and rejected the idea that he owned the luxury condo in Guaruja built by engineering group OAS, one of the conglomerates snared in a vast corruption scandal tied to state-run oil company Petrobras.
