Agência Brasil

Brasília - The Brazilian Minister of Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, discussed Brazilian judicial reform with Lord Woolf, head of the British Judiciary, at a meeting today in the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, England.

Bastos traveled to London on Wednesday (6) to sign a judicial cooperation agreement with the government of the United Kingdom, dealing with penal questions. The agreement, which was signed yesterday (7), will permit greater integration between the two countries in the war on money-laundering. On Monday (11) the Minister has a meeting scheduled in London with British prison officials.

Translation: David Silberstein