BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's top prosecutor will look into allegations that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was involved in a vote-buying scheme in Congress that led to the conviction of several of his closest aides for corruption.
Chief federal prosecutor Roberto Gurgel's office said in a statement on Wednesday that he would analyze the accusations of a businessman at the centre of the corruption case, Marcos Valerio, who alleged Lula not only knew about the illegal scheme but received money from it.
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