Janot says he sees no reason to investigate Dilma.

Brazil's Attorney General told opposition parliamentarians today that he sees no factual basis, support, or grounds to investigate the president within the scope of Operation Lava Jato; this account was given by PPS deputy Raul Jungmann (PE), who met with Rodrigo Janot accompanied by the leaders of the DEM, Mendonça Filho, and the PSDB, Carlos Sampaio; Janot's opinion, sent to the Supreme Court earlier this month, requested that Dilma Rousseff not be investigated based on Article 86 of the Constitution, which states that "the President of the Republic, during his term of office, cannot be held responsible for acts unrelated to the exercise of his functions"; for Mendonça Filho, Janot's "preliminary" assessment does not mean that "new facts cannot emerge that lead the Public Prosecutor's Office to reassess its current position."

March 31, 2015, 22:23 PMUpdated July 05, 2018, 05:27 pm

Brazil's Attorney General told opposition parliamentarians today that he sees no factual basis, support, or grounds to investigate the president within the scope of Operation Lava Jato; this was reported by PPS deputy Raul Jungmann (PE), who met with Rodrigo Janot accompanied by the leaders of the DEM, Mendonça Filho, and the PSDB, Carlos Sampaio; Janot's opinion, sent to the Supreme Court earlier this month, requested that Dilma Rousseff not be investigated based on Article 86 of the Constitution, which states that "the President of the Republic, during his term of office, cannot be held responsible for acts unrelated to the exercise of his functions"; for Mendonça Filho, Janot's "preliminary" assessment does not mean that "new facts cannot emerge that lead the Public Prosecutor's Office to reassess its current position" (Photo: Gisele Federicce).

247 - Brazil's Attorney General, Rodrigo Janot, told opposition lawmakers during a meeting on Tuesday, March 31st, that he sees no factual basis to investigate President Dilma Rousseff as part of Operation Lava Jato. This statement was made by Congressman Raul Jungmann of the PPS party.

"The prosecutor told us that he saw no factual grounds, support, or reasons to investigate President Dilma," he said. Also present at the meeting were the leader of the DEM party, Deputy Mendonça Filho (PE), and the leader of the PSDB party, Carlos Sampaio (SP). According to Mendonça Filho, Janot's "preliminary" assessment does not mean that "new facts cannot emerge that lead the Public Prosecutor's Office to reassess its current position."

"It's a preliminary assessment by him and doesn't mean that during the course of Operation Lava Jato or even the Petrobras CPI, new facts cannot emerge that lead the Public Prosecutor's Office to reassess its current position regarding the merits. If the Supreme Court understands that an investigation of the president by the Attorney General's Office is possible at any time, the Public Prosecutor's Office can request an inquiry, if it has sufficient evidence," he stated.

Earlier this month, Janot had already sent an opinion to the Supreme Federal Court opposing the investigation of the president, based on Article 86 of the Constitution, which states that "the President of the Republic, during his term of office, cannot be held responsible for acts unrelated to the exercise of his duties."

The mention of Dilma's name in the Lava Jato investigation was made by former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa, who stated in court testimony that he received a request from former minister Antonio Palocci for a donation of R$ 2 million for the Workers' Party candidate's 2010 campaign. According to him, it was the money launderer Alberto Youssef who mediated the request. Both Palocci and Youssef, however, denied the event. The money launderer said that Costa must have been mistaken.