Brazil’s federal police have opened a preliminary investigation into alleged irregularities in President Dilma Rousseff’s re-election campaign last year.
According to the media office of the federal police, the probe was opened on Oct. 7, following a decision by Justice Gilmar Mendes of the Superior Electoral Court to look into allegations of wrongdoing by the Rousseff campaign. Mendes, also a justice at Brazil’s top court, recently asked prosecutors to investigate the campaign.
Efforts to contact staff who worked in the campaign for comment were unsuccessful. Rousseff’s office declined to comment on the probe.
The electoral court, known as TSE, voted 5 to 2 on the decision last week. An investigation aims to find out whether Rousseff and her running mate, Vice President Michel Temer, abused their power while in office to run the campaign and whether illegal money was used as funding.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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