Brazil's Justice Minister Sergio Moro resigned on Friday, accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of political meddling in law enforcement and creating a political crisis in the midst of an economic downturn and the coronavirus epidemic.
BRASILIA - Brazil’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro resigned on Friday, accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of political meddling in law enforcement and creating a political crisis in the midst of an economic downturn and the coronavirus epidemic.
As Moro finished his televised address, protests rang out across with Brazil, with people banging pots and pans from their apartments and shouting “Bolsonaro out!” Moro said Bolsonaro told him he wanted a federal police chief who would provide him with intelligence reports, which Moro found “inappropriate”. Moro also said that Bolsonaro was concerned about Supreme Court inquiries, without giving details.
He oversaw Brazil’s largest-ever corruption probe, which uncovered billions of dollars in bribes and jailed scores of powerful businessmen and politicians, including leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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