Source: Ricardo Kotscho.

From behind every door that opens, more skeletons emerge from the closet where the secret dealings of the São Paulo subway have been closely guarded for years.

Now that the topic has been blown wide open — by TV networks and in the columns of a sympathetic media — the major dailies in São Paulo are engaged in a veritable scavenger hunt  in their haste to turn up exclusive new evidence of fraud and announce the measures taken by the state prosecutor — and where has the MPE been all these years? — as a result of “leaks” supposedly perpetrated by the antitrust agency CADE and based on a plea agreement with Siemens, a member of the cartel.

Why only now?

Look at the headlines:

“MP investigates whether train cartel enriched public servants”(Estadão).

“Task force will investigate 45 cases related to trains and subway lines” (Folha)