{"id":36617,"date":"2019-03-21T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36617"},"modified":"2019-03-21T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:22:48","slug":"brazils-former-president-michel-temer-arrested-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36617","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s former President Michel Temer arrested: reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Brazil&#8217;s former President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday as part of the sweeping anti-corruption investigation known as &#8220;Car Wash&#8221;, a source involved in the case told Reuters news agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Local media have also reported the arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A spokeswoman for the Prosecutors Office in Rio de Janeiro told The Associated Press on Thursday that Judge Marcelo Breitas had issued an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Breitas is a Rio judge overseeing part of a sprawling corruption probe involving kickbacks to politicians and public officials.<\/p>\n<p>Temer, a longtime legislator, was hit with corruption charges during his presidency which were blocked by allies in the lower house Congress. The legislative body must authorise charges against a sitting president.<\/p>\n<p>Temer has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since launching in March 2014, the Car Wash investigation has led to the jailing of top businessmen and politicians, including ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p>Temer was president from 2016 to 2018, taking office following the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s former President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday as part of the sweeping anti-corruption investigation known as &#8220;Car Wash&#8221;, a source involved in the case told Reuters news agency.\u00a0 Local media have also reported the arrest.\u00a0 A spokeswoman for the Prosecutors Office in Rio de Janeiro told The Associated Press on Thursday that Judge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}