PARALYSED INVESTIGATION || Chapter 4 || International cooperation requests are another blight on investigations. Countries like Angola, Brazil, Switzerland, and Venezuela can take years to respond. But there are many more controversial situations in the confidential DCIAP documents. Translations also involve months of waiting, court officials are overloaded with work and are unable to process inquiries for hundreds of days. Documents go missing or remain in limbo, and prosecutors take years to obtain certificates of proceedings from within the DCIAP itself.