Former Brazilian president under corruption investigation
Published:Monday | April 8, 2013 | 9:38 AM
Brazilian prosecutors are now probing former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for corruption.
Lula is accused of being involved in an illegal scheme that used public funds to pay coalition parties for political support.
Lula has denied knowledge of the scheme, however, several of his close aides have been convicted for their involvement.
Marcos Valerio, a businessman at the centre of a long-running corruption scandal, told prosecutors last September that the former president knew of the scheme and had received money from it.
Valerio, who worked closely with Lula's Workers' Party was giving testimony in a bid to reduce his 40-year sentence on corruption charges.
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