Brasília - Today the Post Office CPI which is investigating charges of corruption in the Post Office will hear testimony by the former treasurer of the PT, Delubio Soares. He has been accused of involvement in a payoff scheme in which the PT paid a monthly allowance to some members of Congress for their support of government bills.

Like the former PT secretary general, Silvio Pereira, who testified yesterday, Soares has obtained a so-called preventive habeas corpus which will protect him from arrest and allow him to remain silent if his answers could be incriminating.

Translator: Allen Bennett