RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's ex-president Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday (Mar 21), becoming the latest former leader of the Latin American ...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's ex-president Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday , becoming the latest former leader of the Latin American country caught up in a sprawling anti-corruption probe that has already claimed dozens of political and corporate scalps.
He escaped action over two of the allegations in 2017 when Brazil's Congress voted to dismiss them, cementing his reputation as the ultimate survivor in one of the world's messiest and scandal-ridden democracies. The center-right politician took over as a caretaker figure after the last Workers Party president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached and removed from office in 2016, accused of cooking the government's books.
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