Brazil's new top prosecutor reshuffles 'Car Wash' investigation team


  • World
  • Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators take part in a protest in support of Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigation, in Brasilia, Brazil May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's new top federal prosecutor on Tuesday reshuffled the team of investigators in charge of pursuing the biggest corruption probe yet conducted in Latin America's largest nation.

Prosecutor General Raquel Dodge, who took over the post on Monday after the end of her predecessor Rodrigo Janot's term, had previously invited all the members of Janot's team of prosecutors working on the "Car Wash" corruption probe to stay.

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