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Weekly Report - 20 April 2017 (WR-17-15)

BRAZIL: Disillusionment grows as graft probe deepens

Brazil’s supreme court (STF) has lifted the lid on the Pandora’s box of Brazilian politics. On 4 April, the STF published the names of over 100 leading legislators and politicians suspected of receiving bribes or favours from local engineering company Odebrecht. This has brought Brazil’s political establishment into disrepute and further destabilised the current administration led by President Michel Temer.

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