Brazil has arrested a former leader, Michel Temer, accusing him of embezzlement and money laundering and of being the leader of a criminal organisation.
Seventy-eight year-old Temer, who is the predecessor of current President Jair Bolsonaro, was arrested in Sao Paulo, as part of a sprawling anti-corruption probe.
He is the latest ex-leader of the Latin American country to be caught up in the so-called Car Wash investigation that has claimed scores of political and corporate scalps.
Former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is serving a lengthy jail term after being convicted in two corruption cases.
The investigation into Temer had uncovered “the existence of a criminal organisation in full operation, involved in concrete acts of clear gravity,” the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Former mines and energy minister Moreira Franco was also arrested along with several…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
