Geddel Vieira Lima, ‘one of the principle articulators of the Michel Temer government’, detained a week after embattled president was chargedBrazilian police have arrested a close ally of the country’s embattled president Michel Temer, just as he seemed to be marshalling forces to fight a corruption crisis that has shaken his administration to its foundations. Geddel Vieira Lima, a former cabinet minister who resigned in November, was detained in the north-eastern state of Bahia in a police operation investigating irregularities at a government-controlled bank. Brazil president in trouble as top senator quits and says government 'discredited' Read moreThe arrest came a week after Brazil’s prosecutor-general charged Temer and an aide and former lawmaker with corruption. The president has angrily denied the accusations, and vowed to continue an unpopular programme of austerity measures. “The last weeks have been a rollercoaster for Temer.”This week, Brazil’s congress is to begin discussing the corruption charges.

Source: The Guardian July 03, 2017 22:07 UTC