BRASMLIA, June 4 (APP/AFP) – A close adviser to Brazil’s President Michel Temer was arrested in Brasilia on Saturday, police said, in the latest move in a corruption case that threatens to bring down his government.
Police filmed the aide, Rodrigo Rocha Loures, in March running from a Sao Paulo pizzeria parking lot to a taxi with a black suitcase containing 500,000 reais, about $152,500.
The judge who ordered Loures’ incarceration is leading the Supreme Court’s investigation into a sprawling pay-for-play corruption case at state oil giant Petrobras that already has swept up many in Brazil’s political and business elite.
It now threatens to bring down Temer, who is fighting calls for his
impeachment as prosecutors build a corruption and obstruction of justice case against him.
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Adviser to Brazil president arrested in corruption probe
