A very powerful former President has been detained.    

AFP reports that former Brazilian President, Inacio Lula da Silva has been detained him for questioning as part of a corruption probe. Police searched his house in Sao Paulo, the Lula Institute, and houses of family members, Jose Chrispiniano, a spokesman for Lula and his institute, told AFP.

The federal police also issued a statement confirming earlier media reports of this dramatic development in Brazil’s huge corruption probe, dubbed Operation Car Wash and centered around the state-owned oil company Petrobras.