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Weekly Report - 23 November 2017 (WR-17-46)

BRAZIL: Wrapping up ‘Car Wash’ investigations

Brazil’s new chief of police Fernando Segóvia said he would aim to finish work on 150 investigations related to anti-corruption investigation ‘Operation Car Wash’ before mid 2018. Concluding these investigations would provide greater certainty about which candidates can run in next year’s elections. Under Brazil’s 2010 ‘clean slate law’, politicians with criminal convictions cannot run for at least eight years after they are sentenced.

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