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BRAZILIAN President Dilma Rousseff has been cleared of involvement in the Petrobras corruption scandal.
A report by the parliamentary commission investigating the theft of £1.3 billion from the state oil company exonerated Ms Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Former Petrobras presidents Graca Foster and Jose Sergio Gabrielli were also cleared of wrongdoing.
The committee said Petrobras was a “victim of a cartel” of construction companies “with the complicity of corrupt officials.”
It declared that the crimes were personally and not politically motivated, leaving political parties and companies in the clear.
A federal police report found that building firms fiddled contracts with Petrobras to inflate their products, sharing their ill-gotten gains with corrupt oil executives and politicians.
The opposition has used the scandal to call for Ms Rousseff’s impeachment.
The report, which runs to 754 pages, has still to be approved by the commission of 27 MPs next Thursday.
