Brazil’s Supreme Court authorized the questioning by police of ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a broadening corruption case focused on state-run oil company Petrobras, a representative for the court said on Friday.
The original motion for permission to question Lula as a witness, which was filed last month, said the popular leader “may have benefited” from the political kickback scheme.
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.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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