HALISTER1: Brazil Prosecutors Confirm Arrest Order for Former Tourism Min.

Brazil Prosecutors Confirm Arrest Order for Former Tourism Min.

(Bloomberg) -- Former Brazil Tourism Minister and ex-lower house speaker Henrique Eduardo Alves among targets of new police operation linked to Carwash probe, according to statement published on public prosecutors’ website.
  • Police are serving five preventive arrest orders, including one for Alves and another for Eduardo Cunha, who’s already in prison, prosecutors say
  • Investigation into corruption and money laundering is based on Odebrecht plea bargains
  • Alves’s lawyer couldn’t be reached by phone for comment
  • NOTE: Earlier, Brazil Police Serve 33 Court Orders in Probe Linked to Carwash
To contact the reporters on this story: Giulia Camillo in Sao Paulo at gcamillo@bloomberg.net; Ana Carolina Siedschlag in São Paulo at asiedschlag@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Giulia Camillo at gcamillo@bloomberg.net Danielle Chaves

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Eduardo Cunha (Federative Republic of Brazil)

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Criminal Practice & Procedure

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