Brazil's ex-president Lula charged in secret Petrobras case, says report

Newspaper says ally and mentor of embattled President Dilma Rousseff is named alongside Senator Delcidio do Amaral in supreme court documents Brazil's prosecutor general has charged the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with participating in a scheme to buy the silence of a former executive at state-run oil company Petrobras, newspaper Estado de S.Paulo has reported. Related: Dilma Rousseff in New York declares no grounds for impeachment