Geddel Vieira Lima, former cabinet minister in the
government of Brazil 's
President Michel Temer has been arrested and charged with obstruction of
justice, officials discloses on Monday.
According to pulse
The arrest comes after charges were filed last week against
the embattled Temer, whom prosecutors accused of receiving bribes from a
Brazilian meatpacking plant.
Those charges come against the backdrop of Brazil 's
sweeping graft investigation, the three-year long "Operation Car Wash"
probe, which has uncovered systemic corruption in the political and business
elite in Latin America 's biggest country.
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