Temer Administration

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 30 Mar 2018 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

This Thursday (29), the Federal Police arrested several individuals that are closely tied to President Michel Temer (MDB). businessman and lawyer José Yunes, one of the owners of Rodrimar, Antonio Celso Grecco, former minister of Agriculture Wagner Rossi and Coronel João Batista de Lima Filho, known as Coronel Lima.

The arrests were authorized by Luis Roberto Barroso, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), and are tied to the investigation into the Ports Decree, drafted in 2017.Suspected of having benefitted the Rodrimar company in drafting the decree, which concerns the ports sector, President Temer is one of the targets of the investigation.The Supreme Court has prohibited the Federal Police from making any statement regarding this operation.

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