Brazil Justice Presiding Over Carwash Corruption Scandal Among Passengers In Crashed Jet
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jan 19, 2017
Has Brazil devolved to political assassinations? Perhaps, for now there is little information aside from the news which hit Bloomberg moments ago that a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, Teori Zavascki, who has presided over Operation Carwash, a massive corruption probe, is on the list of passengers of a crashed jet on Thursday afternoon.
The Supreme Court confirmed that Teori Zavascki was on the list of passengers on board the plane which fell into the sea near the town of Paraty, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s Globo reported moments ago. The plane, a BE9L King Air, had four passengers on board, according to the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.
As Bloomberg adds, Zavascki is the judge overseeing Operation Carwash at the Supreme Court. Carwash is an investigation into corruption at the state-run oil firm Petrobras that has ensnared dozens of Brazil’s leading business executives and politicians, spearheaded by Judge Sergio Moro.
Reuters adds that the condition of Justice Zavascki, who is overseeing a massive corruption investigation, not immediately known after plane crash.
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