BRAZIL DRUG-TRAFFICKING PROBE ACCUSES 800

A congressional commission in Brazil investigating drug-trafficking has
approved its final report, recommending that more than eight-hundred
people, including politicians, police officers and business leaders, be
indicted.

The commission worked for fourteen months, uncovering a network of
criminals who use Brazil as a transit point for smuggling drugs from
neighbouring Colombia, Bolivia and Peru to the United States and Europe.

The report will now go to the public prosecutor's office.

But correspondents say the challenges of bringing anyone to trial are huge.

For example, three of the politicians named have parliamentary immunity
from prosecution.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service