13-02-2017 15:41 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Brazil's Temer denies shielding minister from corruption case

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Michel Temer said on Monday that he would not interfere in the country's biggest corruption investigation and denied that he had made a close aide a cabinet minister to shield him against prosecution. Temer did not mention by name Wellington Moreira Franco, his point man for infrastructure investment who became a minister despite being named in plea bargain testimony by a defendant in the sweeping graft investigation, known as "Car Wash," which centres on
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