FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators take part in a motorcade in support of the "Lava Jato" (Car Wash) corruption investigation in front of headquarters of the Attorney General in Brasilia, Brazil September 6, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Car Wash anti-corruption unit has officially shut down, the end of an era for a team of prosecutors that helped send dozens of Latin American political and business leaders to jail, including several former presidents.
The task force, which stemmed from a routine money-laundering investigation into a car wash in Brasilia, ceased to exist on Monday, although its dissolution was not announced until Wednesday by the federal prosecutors' office (MPF).
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