Brazilian film-makers last week released Federal Police — No One Is Above the Law, a silver screen celebration of Lava Jato or Car Wash, the landmark corruption investigation that has threatened to overturn the country’s entire political establishment.
The film soups up reality with Hollywood-style car chases and gun slinging. But the real investigation, which started with a probe into kickbacks at state-owned oil company Petrobras, is proving yet again that fact is often stranger than fiction.
Even as the film was being released, federal police revealed they had found the country`s biggest hoard of criminal cash in an apartment in Salvador, northeastern Brazil — R$51m allegedly belonging to Geddel Vieira Lima, a former minister of President Michel Temer’s government.