Morning Star.png Brazil Law Chief Seeks Arrest of Temer Allies The Morning Star, London, 9 June 2016 Brazil's attorney general has requested the arrest of several allies of acting President Michel Temer for obstructing the Car Wash corruption probe at state oil firm Petrobras. TV Globo reported on Tuesday that Rodrigo Janot was seeking to have former president Jose Sarney, former planning minister Romero Juca, lower house Speaker Eduardo Cunha and senate Speaker Renan Calheiros taken into custody. All four are members of Mr Temer's Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) and played key roles in last month's legislative coup against President Dilma Rousseff. Ms Rousseff and her Workers Party have consistently argued that the impeachment proceedings led by her former PMDB allies are a cover for sinking the inquiry into multimillion-pound bribery allegations. Supreme Federal Tribunal judge Teori Zavascki will rule on the request. Only the high court can arrest or try elected officials. The allegations rest on secret recordings made by former senator and PMBD ally Sergio Machado of Mr Calheiros, Mr Juca, Mr Sarney and then transparency minister Fabiano Silveira discussing ways to block the Car Wash investigation. The recordings suggest that the PMDB made deals to win cross-party congressional support for Ms Rousseff's six-month suspension in return for whitewashing their roles in the scandal. Those recordings and their transcripts were sensationally broadcast and published in the Brazilian media, forcing the resignations of Mr Juca and Mr Silveira. Mr Machado has struck a plea bargain deal with prosecutors in return for immunity in the investigation. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c9a2-Brazil-Law-chief-seeks-arrest-of-T emer-allies -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/002a01d1c21a%24a15dc3b0%24e4194b10%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
