Brazil's former president Michel Temer becomes the latest high-profile politician to be arrested in Brazil’s long-running Car Wash corruption investigation
Prosecutors allege Temer was the leader of a"criminal organisation" that diverted more than $470 million funds as part of a scheme related to the construction of a nuclear power plant.Former Brazilian President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday on corruption charges, a dramatic development in a sprawling graft probe that has roiled Latin America's largest nation and shows no sign of slowing.
Prosecutors said in a statement that one Engevix executive said in a plea bargain testimony that he paid more than $300,000 in 2014 to a company owned by a close Temer associate, Col. Joao Baptista Lima Filho. An arrest warrant was also issued for Lima Filho. "It is evident the total lack of foundations for the arrest, which serves only to display the former president as a trophy to those that, under the pretext of fighting corruption, mock the basic rules of the constitution," Temer lawyer Eduardo Pizarro Carnelos said in a statement.Breitas is overseeing the Rio portion of a massive corruption probe involving kickbacks to politicians and public officials.
Many worried that Moro's absence could hurt the investigations. And the Car Wash probe has suffered a handful of recent defeats, including a decision by the Supreme Court to allow some corruption cases involving campaign finance, which figured heavily in the probe, to be tried by electoral courts.
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