Inquiry would examine whether Silva ‘peddled influence’ by allegedly swaying foreign leaders to award inflated contracts to building firm OdebrechtFederal prosecutors in Brazil have confirmed that they are weighing whether to open a full investigation into former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s alleged overseas lobbying efforts for the scandal-plagued construction firm Odebrecht, the nation’s biggest builder.In an emailed statement, the federal prosecutors’ office said it has 90 days to decide whether to begin a full inquiry into whether Silva engaged in “influence peddling” by allegedly swaying foreign leaders to award inflated billion-dollar contracts to Odebrecht, and by pushing Brazil’s state development bank to give the company well over $1 billion in low-interest loans since 2011, after he left office.