Ex-President Temer arrested in Brazil on corruption charges

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Former Brazilian President Michel Temer arrested on corruption charges, a dramatic development in a graft probe that shows no sign of slowing.

FILE - In this June 1, 2018 file photo, Brazil's President Michel Temer pauses during a speech at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil. A judge in Rio de Janeiro issued an arrest warrant Thursday, March 21, 2019, for the former president, who is being investigated in several corruption cases.

While the charges against Temer were narrow, prosecutors told reporters during a press conference that the former president and several associates had been engaging in pay-for-play deals involving kickbacks since the 1980s that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes. "Justice was created for all and everyone must respond for his own actions," President Jair Bolsonaro, who ran on promises to crack down on endemic corruption, told reporters while on a state visit to Chile.

Former Judge Sergio Moro, who oversaw many Car Wash cases and became an internationally known anti-corruption crusader, stepped down at the end of last year to become justice minister. "If Lula and Temer can go to jail, who cannot?" said Carlos Melo, political science professor at Insper University in Sao Paulo. "There are several formerly high-ranking politicians not in office at the moment, which makes them more exposed to police investigations."was impeached and ousted from office for mismanaging the federal budget.

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