In Brazil, a Supreme Court Justice ordered investigations into eight Ministers in President Michel Temer’s cabinet and dozens of sitting lawmakers allegedly linked to the country’s biggest corruption scandal ever.
The names of the politicians under investigation was released by Justice Edson Fachin yesterday, after lifting the seal on plea bargain testimony from the employees of a construction company, which has admitted paying millions of dollars in bribes. The investigation into eight ministers, or nearly a third of the cabinet, poses a serious threat to Temer’s efforts to regain investor confidence and lift the economy out of its worst recession on record.
