Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Friday it had received a request from federal investigators to question former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a political kickback scheme engulfing the state-run oil company.
According to a motion filed with the court, federal police suspect the former president “may have benefited” from a political kickback scheme at Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras.
Lula may have “secured advantages for himself, for his party … or for his government by maintaining a base of political support sustained by illicit business” at the company, investigators wrote in the motion.
The request adds further fuel to a crisis that has already undermined support for President Dilma Rousseff, Lula’s successor, his former energy minister and chairwoman of Petrobras at the time much of the graft took place.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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