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Temer Remains In Mire, Now Accused Of Spying On Judge
Monday 12TH JUN 2017
BRAZILIAN President Michel Temer escaped financial malfeasance claims by the skin of his teeth at the weekend before facing new allegations of spying on a Supreme Court justice.
The coup-installed president was cleared by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal by four votes to three but was then hit by a story in Veja magazine declaring that he and his advisers had asked the Brazilian Intelligence Agency to spy on judge Edson Fachin.
Mr Fachin is the justice in charge of an investigation into whether Mr Temer accepted bribes and endorsed buying the silence of a former MP convicted of corruption. According to Veja, the president’s team is looking for a way to discredit the judge and thereby sink the investigation.
Supreme Court president Carmen Lucia issued a scathing statement calling the alleged spying a tactic that belonged to dictatorships.
More:
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-a4ee-Temer-remains-in-mire,-now-accused-of-spying-on-judge#.WT3zc5DyvIU
