Brazil’s Supreme Court voted on Wednesday to move part of the country’s largest-ever corruption probe to another judge, challenging the notion that all pieces of a case that initially focused on state-run oil firm Petrobras are legally linked.
Justice Dias Toffoli argued that an investigation into whether President Dilma Rousseff’s former chief of staff Gleisi Hoffmann received bribes related to a federal planning ministry contract with a software firm was unrelated to Petrobras and could be heard by a different judge.
The majority of judges at Brazil’s highest court agreed, the Supreme Court said in a statement. Hoffmann has not been charged and said she did not benefit from the software company.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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