Brazil’s top prosecutor will seek authorization from the Supreme Court as soon as this week to investigate senior ministers in President Michel Temer’s Cabinet and senators from his PMDB party for corruption, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
Folha de S. Paulo newspaper reported on Sunday that the request by Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot will include Presidential Chief of Staff Eliseu Padilha and Wellington Moreira Franco, the minister in charge of a major infrastructure and privatization program.
According to the paper, Janot is also considering whether to include Temer himself in the request.
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