Bolsonaro Says Brazil Is Corruption-Free, Ends Carwash Probe
- Sergio Moro, Car Wash judge, says move represents corruption
- Many police investigations could implicate Bolsonaro’s family
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President Jair Bolsonaro said he’s put an end to the country’s long-running Carwash probe, which has sent hundreds of Brazil’s political and business power brokers to jail, because corruption is no longer an issue in his government.
The far-right president, elected in 2018 on a law-and-order platform, said he was “proud” to see the end of the operation that, since its creation in 2014, landed behind bars former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, his political rival, as well as chief executives of construction companies who were sentenced for participating in a large bribery scheme that diverted billions of dollars from public coffers.