After his release, he was interrogated for three hours.
Lula, who is leaving in 2011, has denied the allegations.
The long-running investigation, car wash operation, Petrobras is known as probing allegations of corruption and money laundering.
Dozens have been arrested or Petrobras executives and politicians, according to the survey of bribery and abuse and the promotion of the use of funds to pay for the alleged contract.
Police say they have evidence that Lula, 70, is a rebate program to gain an unfair advantage, he said. But so far there were no complaints against him.
Former President Lula Institute, in a statement (Portugal), for "violence," "illegal arbitrary and irrational," he has been cooperative with the investigation.
Officials said more than 33 search warrants and Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Bahia states, 11 arrest warrants was carried out by 200 federal police agents.
Sao Bernardo Campo, near Sao Paulo, Lula home was raided Friday morning. The headquarters of the Institute in Sao Paulo, his wife, Marisa, and became the son, said.
Lula's personal reputation is just too much at stake in this investigation. His legacy and his political project for the future of Brazil - which has the shape of the country over the last 14 years - is under scrutiny.
For a period of spectacular economic growth under the Workers' Party in Brazil and discrimination seen a decline.
And now, under the same group of countries experiencing the worst recession in 25 years are facing a crisis for the government's critics are wrong.
Lula's presidential run in 2018 for his political project to survive, however, that, in his name, and his team are ready to clean. His detention is a major obstacle in its path.
The market reacted strongly in Brazil. Brazil's currency, the real, the value increased by 3% in the morning. Sao Paulo's main stock exchange in early trading, the index balasilama at more than 4% increase.
One line of investigation, development and operation of a farm in a luxury beachfront apartment in the target company could be favored Lula. This feature was added to the city where the campaign was also carried out.
Some of these companies have hired the Institute Lula and his speech.
"Former President Lula, the leader, who was responsible for the decision to be the director of Petrobras, and the crime was one of the main beneficiaries in addition to being," a police statement quoted by Reuters news agency said.
"There is evidence that crime and its rich treasures of his election campaign financing and political parties."
Lava Jato Car Wash in operation or Portuguese, known as a corruption investigation, has over the past two years the Brazilian media are monitored closely.
Many TV networks Lula's apartment, where protesters have gathered outside to provide live coverage.
Articles began to appear and reflecting what ways are being held. Popular daily Folha de Sao Paulo, one of the many titles that quoted an opposition figure, "Lula could be the beginning of the end of the operation."
"Aletheia" is a Greek word meaning "truth": this new phase of the investigation, a search nicknames are highlighted in several newspapers.
The following campaign clashes between supporters and opponents of the former president in front of his house. Both sides have called for protests after Friday.
Protesters scuffle outside the police station where Lula was questioned.
Lula's Workers' Party firmly as described (in Portuguese) operations, its leader, "political show" criticism.
But the prosecutor Carlos Fernando Lima dos Santos defended at a press conference, saying that no one was exempt from prosecution.
A popular figure
Served two terms as President Lula and his political protege, Dilma Rousseff succeeded by his office.
He is also a time of rapid economic growth, led by Brazil and lifting millions of people out of poverty is to give credit for.
He's still a well-liked personality, and presidential elections in 2018 has been considered as a possible candidate, but his popularity had recently alleged that he had been hit by the knowledge or involvement.
Lula, a former president of the Institute, said in an unlawful act has been committed repeatedly before, during or after his presidential term.
Corruption scandal Miss Rousseff, who has repeatedly called for the impeachment threat, analysts say. He has denied having any knowledge of the crime.
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