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LatinNews Daily - 06 July 2017

In brief: Brazil

*President Michel Temer has handed over his defence case to the federal chamber of deputies’ constitutional justice committee (CCJ) after he was formally accused by the attorney general’s office (PGR) of passive corruption. Temer’s lawyer, Antônio Cláudio Mariz de Oliveira, said the president did not commit any crimes and the evidence against him, based on secret recordings of conversations with Temer made by executives from holding group J&F Investimentos, which controls local meatpacking firm JBS, was based on false assumptions. The federal chamber of deputies will hold a full vote on the charges during a session scheduled for July/August depending on whether legislators choose to forgo a scheduled recess.

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