Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday it had accepted a plea agreement offered by prosecutors to Senator Delcídio do Amaral, a legislative ally of President Dilma Rousseff until he was arrested last year in a far-reaching corruption scandal.
A copy of Amaral’s testimony for the plea, obtained by Reuters, confirmed leaks to Brazilian media in recent weeks that the senator told prosecutors that both Rousseff and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had been aware of corruption at state-run energy company Petroleo Brasileiro SA.
Both Rousseff and Lula have denied any wrongdoing.
The allegations in the plea underscore the reach of a scandal that has ensnared dozens of top political and corporate leaders in Latin America’s biggest country, and now threatens to topple Rousseff’s administration, which is struggling with an economic recession and impeachment proceedings in Congress.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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