Senator Antonio Anastasia presented his findings to a 21-member Senate impeachment committee, which is expected to vote overwhelmingly on Friday to send his recommendation to the full chamber.
The Senate is due to vote on May 11 to try Rousseff, at which point she will be automatically suspended, pending a trial that could last up to 180 days.
Vice President Michel Temer will take over as acting president and, if Rousseff is convicted, he would serve out the remainder of her term through 2018.
Brazilian media has also reported a leaked request by chief prosecutor Rodrigo Janot for the Supreme Court to authorise an investigation into Rousseff, ex-president Lula da Silva and other close allies over their alleged involvement in a vast corrupton network centred on state oil giant Petrobas.
Janot's reported request for the corruption probe names 31 politicians and other figures, also including opponents of Rousseff, illustrating the way that the Petrobras embezzlement and bribery scheme allegedly spread throughout the ruling class.
But the request has yet to be confirmed by officials.
Dozens of people have already been charged, prosecuted or imprisoned, including some of the country's richest men and leaders of all political stripes in Congress.
Rousseff has not been named in any direct corruption charges, although she was chairman of Petrobras during much of the time the scheme was underway.
Source: Agencies, aljazeera.com
4/5/16
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The impeachment process against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been thrown into doubt...
ReplyDeleteThe acting Speaker of Brazil's lower house, Waldir Maranhao, has annulled a vote in the lower house on 17 April that allowed the proceedings to go on to the Senate.
The Senate was scheduled to vote on whether to start an impeachment trial on Wednesday.
It is not currently clear if that vote will now happen.
Mr Maranhao said there had been irregularities during the lower house session in which its members voted in favour of the impeachment process going ahead.
He said members of the lower house should not have publicly announced what their position was prior to the vote, and that it had been wrong of party leaders to instruct their members how to vote.
Mr Maranhao called for a new vote in the lower house to be held, but it is not yet clear whether the Senate will agree to return the proceedings to the lower house.
It is also not known whether Mr Maranhao's decision can be overruled.....BBC
9/5/16