page_title: Offshoots of Operation Car Wash
section_title: Operation Brazil Cost
hierarchical_section_title: Offshoots of Operation Car Wash / In Brazil / 2016 / Operation Brazil Cost
caption_attribution_description: Português: Ministro das Comunicações do Brasil, Paulo Bernardo. Brasília, 15/5/2011
context_page_description: A long series of criminal investigations have occurred in Brazil associated with Operation Car Wash, since the first one began in March 2014. These investigations are considered offshoots of the original phased investigations.
context_section_description: On 23 June 2016, the Federal Police launched Operation Brazil Cost,  with searches in São Paulo, Curitiba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Sul, and with the arrest of the former Minister of Planning of the Lula administration and of Communications in the first Dilma administration, Paulo Bernardo. The operation is an offshoot of the 18th phase of Operation Car Wash. Paulo is the husband of Senator Gleisi Hoffmann (Workers' Party-Paraná) and he was arrested in Brasília. Carlos Gabas, former Minister of Social Security of the Dilma administration, was the target of search and seizure. 
  The operation involved the computer company Consist Software. The Federal Police suspected a R$100 million ($26,000,000) bribe by this company in a contract assignment scheme at the Ministry of Planning when Paulo Bernardo was minister. In the same operation, agents of the Federal Police seized computers, documents and archival material at the headquarters of the national executive committee of the Workers' Party in downtown São Paulo.
caption: Ex-minister Paulo Bernardo was arrested in the operation.
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