Politics · Brazil

—The raid. Federal Police searched the home of Jaques Wagner, President Lula’s leader in the Senate.

—The first. He is the first sitting member of Lula’s inner circle hit by the bank scandal.

—The seizure. Officers took about fifty-five thousand dollars and thirty-three thousand euros in cash.

—The allegation. Investigators suspect undue benefits, including a Salvador apartment worth around four hundred seventy thousand dollars.