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Brazil President: No interference in corruption probe

Brazil President: No interference in corruption probe | iNFOnews.ca
Brazil's acting President Michel Temer arrives for the inauguration ceremony of new presidents of state companies, at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. The new president of the state oil company Petrobras is Pedro Parente; the new president of the National Bank of Social Development is Maria Silvia Bastos; and the new president of the Bank of Brazil is Paulo Rogerio Caffarelli. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

SAO PAULO – Brazil’s acting president is again trying to knock down allegations his new government will try to interfere in a massive anti-corruption probe that has implicated many politicians.

Michel Temer appeared at Wednesday’s swearing-in of state-run bank presidents and insisted for what he called the “umpteenth time” that no one will meddle in the investigation.

Two members of Temer’s cabinet recently resigned after leaked recordings suggested they had tried to derail the investigation of the Petrobras scheme.

Suspended President Dilma Rousseff alleges she was impeached in part to block investigations into the corruption scheme. Prosecutors allege that businesses paid over $2 billion in bribes to obtain contracts from the oil company — projects that then subsequently ballooned in costs.

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