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Weekly Report - 26 October 2017 (WR-17-42)

BRAZIL: Congress shelves corruption case against Temer

Brazil’s federal chamber of deputies voted that President Michel Temer should not be put on trial for leading a criminal organisation and the obstruction of justice. This is the second time Temer has been cleared of criminal charges in the lower chamber of congress in the past three months. The rejected charges also affect Temer’s chief-of-staff Eliseu Padilha and minister of the presidency Wellington Moreira who were also accused of criminal organisation.

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