CEO packed into Petrobras Brazil Scandal

- Brazil's ex-Minister of Planning and Communications, Paulo Bernardo, was arrested Thursday in the long-running investigation into corruption around the state oil company Petrobras. Bernardo was names the Workers Party (PT) minister in the government of President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rousseff has been provisionally suspended by the parliament as head of state in May this year.

The 64-year-old Bernardo is one of the most powerful figures in the country. He was from March 2005 to early 2015 minister. There have been forty Thursday raids, including at Bernardo's wife, Senator Geisi Hoffmann.

The corruption scandal called Lava Jato (car wash) and plaguing Brazilian politics and economics since March 2014. As in Curituba began an investigation into a suspected 'club' of leading figures from business, politics and the leadership include Petrobras and construction giant Odebrecht. They would have systematically siphoned off money from Petrobras for their years of corrupt practices.
  
    
     
      
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