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Embattled Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who has faced calls to resign over allegations he improperly collaborated with anticorruption prosecutors to keep leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva out of the 2018 presidential race, defends himself in front of the Senate justice commission on the "Car Wash" leaks. IMAGES
Sao Paulo (Brazil), Feb 18 (EFE), (Camera: EFE).- The lawyer of former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, Cristiano Zanin, said in an interview with Efe that the anti-corruption operation 'Car Wash' has seriously damaged Brazil's justice.SOUNDBITES OF CRISTIANO ZANIN, LAWYER OF OF FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA:"It is a great scandal for the Brazilian justice that needs to be investigated. It is also time to repair the damage that "Car Wash" has done to the Brazilian justice and the country as a whole, to its economy, sovereignty, and other things.""We have asked the Supreme Federal Court that once Moro's partiality in the "Triplex apartment case" is proved, the legal consequences must be extended to the other two processes where Moro acted."
Brazil Supreme Court hearing on Oderbrecht Car Wash probe that could lead to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's conviction being overturned. IMAGES
Security forces stop the car with Brazil's ex-president Michel Temer inside as he becomes the latest former leader of the Latin American country to be caught up in the so-called Car Wash investigation that has claimed dozens of political and corporate scalps. IMAGES
Images outside Brazilian federal police headquarters in Brasilia where former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is appearing to testify over anti-government riots by his supporters on January 8. IMAGES