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                                                                                         WORLD NEWS Friday 15 September 2017
               Brazil’s Temer charged with obstruction of justice




            MAURICIO SAVARESE            Janot  charged  Temer                                                                  abused their positions to
            Associated Press             with  bribery  earlier  this                                                           commit crimes”
            SAO PAULO (AP) —             year, but in August law-                                                                 to  obtain  advantages
            Brazilian  President  Mi-    makers refused to allow                                                                in  the  government  and
            chel Temer was charged       those proceedings to go                                                                Chamber  of  Deputies,
            with  obstruction  of  jus-  forward.                                                                               wrote Janot.
            tice  and  leading  a        In the latest accusations,                                                             The  widely  expected
            criminal organization on     Janot  said  that  Temer                                                               charges came hours af-
            Thursday,  the  latest  fall-  led  a  criminal  organi-                                                            ter authorities raided the
            out from a wide-ranging      zation  since  May  2016,                                                              home  of  a  member  of
            corruption  probe  that      when  he  assumed  the                                                                 Temer’s Cabinet.
            has  ensnared  many  of      presidency.                                                                            The  operation  was  au-
            the  elite  in  Latin  Ameri-  Temer,  then  vice  presi-                                                           thorized  by  Brazil’s  top
            ca’s largest nation.         dent,  took  over  when                                                                court  and  is  part  of  an
            In filings to the country’s   President Dilma Rousseff    In  this  Aug.  16,  2017  photo,  Brazil’s  President  Michel  Temer   investigation  of  Agricul-
            top court, Attorney Gen-     was  impeached  and          speaks during a ceremony at the Planalto Presidential Palace,   ture Minister Blairo Mag-
            eral  Rodrigo  Janot  ac-    later  removed  from  of-    in Brasilia, Brazil. President Temer has been charged with ob-  gi,  who  is  suspected  of
            cused  Temer  of  paying     fice  for  illegally  manag-  struction  of  justice  and  of  leading  a  criminal  organization  on   bribing  state  lawmak-
            hush  funds  to  a  former   ing the federal budget.      Thursday, Sept. 14, in the latest fallout from a wide-ranging cor-  ers  during  his  2003-2010
                                                                      ruption probe that has ensnared many of the elite in Latin Amer-
            speaker  of  the  lower      Temer  “promoted,  or-                                                                 terms  as  governor  of
            Chamber  of  Deputies        ganized and integrated       a  criminal  organization  four     people,     includ-   Mato Grosso.
            and to an operator of his    willingly  and  personally   formed  by  more  than  ing  public  agents  who          q
            political group.
            Janot  also  alleged  that   Venezuela government, opposition discuss new talks
            Temer  led  the  criminal
            organization  that  op-      By EZEQUIEL LOPEZ            the  South  American  na-    er  or  separately.“There  for  new  negotiations.But
            erates  in  Brazil’s  Con-   Associated Press             tion’s  economic  and  po-   is  a  lot  of  willingness  to  earlier  in  the  day,  Vene-
            gress and the executive      SANTO  DOMINGO,  Do-         litical   turmoil.Dominican  reach  some  kind  of  ne-   zuelan  opposition  leader
            branch.                      minican  Republic  (AP)  President  Danilo  Medina  gotiation,”  Medina  said,  Julio Borges, who leads his
            Temer  has  repeatedly       —    Representatives     of  said  he  met  with  dele-   adding  that  more  meet-    country’s  opposition-con-
            denied wrongdoing.           Venezuela’s  government  gates  from  both  Venezu-       ings would be held Thurs-    trolled National Assembly,
            As a sitting president, Te-  and  opposition  began  ela’s government and the  day.Jorge  Rodriguez,  the  said  there  would  be  no
            mer  will  only  be  put  on   meetings  in  the  Domini-  opposition  for  more  than  mayor of Caracas who is  new  talks  until  conditions
            trial  if  two-thirds  of  Bra-  can Republic this week to  five hours, though he did  on  the  government  del-    outlined  by  the  main  op-
            zil’s lower house votes to   explore possibilities for re-  not  say  whether  he  met  egation,  expressed  opti-  position  coalition  have
            suspend him from office.     starting  talks  on  resolving  with the two sides togeth-  mism  about  the  chance  been met. q
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