Brazil's prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot reacts during an administrative session in the Attorney General's Office in Brasilia March 3, 2015. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's top prosecutor asked the Federal Supreme Court on Tuesday to open investigations into politicians who allegedly benefited from a multibillion-dollar kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras, a court official said on Tuesday.
The request for authorization to probe elected officials expands the country's biggest corruption scandal to the political realm, further rattling President Dilma Rousseff's administration at a time when it is already struggling to contain the economic fallout from the case.
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