A judge, overseeing Brazil’s biggest corruption case, has died after the plane he was travelling in crashed off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.<br /><br /> Teori Zavascki served as a rapporteur to the Supreme Court in the graft probe focused on the state-run oil company Petrobras, known as Operation Carwash.<br /><br /> Though no cause for the crash has been established, the timing has already raised suspicions of foul play as well as questions of who will take over the case.<br /><br /> Zavascki had been reviewing testimony from business executives which was expected to implicate hundreds of politicians in the kickback and bribery scandal.<br /><br /> The investigation has so far charged 200 people, and convicted 80 executives and politicians, while senior figures such as ex-president Lula da Silva and current leader Michel Temer have been implicated in the affair.<br />
