Brazil's Attorney General's Office extends Lava Jato task force for six months.
An order from the Attorney General's Office extends for another six months the working group that assists the Attorney General, Rodrigo Janot, in the part of Operation Lava Jato that is being processed in the Supreme Federal Court (STF); the team is composed of ten people.
Felipe Pontes - Reporter for Agência Brasil
An order from the Attorney General's Office (PGR) extends for another six months the working group that assists the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot, in the part of Operation Lava Jato that is being processed in the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
The team consists of ten people: federal prosecutors Anna Carolina Resende Maria Garcia, Daniel de Resende Salgado, Fernando Antonio de Alencar Alves de Oliveira Júnior, Maria Clara Barros Noleto, Melina Castro Montoya Flores, Pedro Jorge do Nascimento Costa, Rodrigo Telles de Souza, Ronaldo Pinheiro de Queiroz; and prosecutors from the Federal District and Territories Public Prosecutor's Office (MPFDT) Wilton Queiroz de Lima and Sergio Bruno Cabral Fernandes, the latter coordinating the work.
Among the group's responsibilities are securing plea bargain agreements with potential informants, producing evidence for Lava Jato, and participating in court hearings related to the operation at the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
Recently, a large volume of work from the operation has accumulated at the Attorney General's Office (PGR), the only body competent to investigate and indict individuals with special legal privileges, such as parliamentarians and ministers.
In the plea bargain testimony of 77 executives and former employees of Odebrecht, for example, dozens of politicians currently in office are cited as being involved in the mega-corruption scheme at Petrobras.
The order extending the Lava Jato task force at the Attorney General's Office was signed on January 17th by the acting Attorney General at the time, José Bonifácio Borges de Andrada.