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Stories for September 11th 2016

  • Sunday, September 11th 2016 - 16:40 UTC

    Brazil's ex attorney general claims he was fired for trying to deepen Petrobras corruption case

    “The government wants to smother the Car Wash probe. It is very worried,” Medina Osorio was quoted as saying by Veja.

    Brazil's new government is trying to stifle a corruption investigation targeting politicians and major parties, the former attorney general said in a magazine interview a day after being replaced by President Michel Temer. The former official, Fabio Medina Osorio, told weekly magazine Veja that he was fired because he tried to deepen the so-called “Car Wash” corruption probe into the country's oil company Petrobras.