Lava Jato investigates buyer of Campos' plane.
In the petition in which the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot, ordered the opening of an investigation against Senator Benedito de Lira (PP-AL), a hearing was requested for João Carlos Lyra, suspected of being a loan shark who lent money for an election campaign; the businessman from Pernambuco was presented as one of the owners of the Cessna jet that crashed in 2014, killing Eduardo Campos' (PSB) entourage.
247 – As part of Operation Lava Jato, businessman João Carlos Lyra is being investigated on suspicion of being a loan shark who lent money to the election campaign of Senator Benedito de Lira (PP-AL).
In the petition in which the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot, ordered the opening of an investigation against the parliamentarian, a hearing with Lyra was requested. According to a report in 'Estado de S. Paulo', he is allegedly the owner of Câmara & Vasconcelos, a company that benefited from the money laundering scheme of the money launderer Alberto Youssef.
The man from Pernambuco is one of the owners of the Cessna jet that crashed in 2014, killing Eduardo Campos' (PSB) entourage.