Espionage, Corruption Claims Divide Brazil's Supreme Court
Two justices are seeking probes of each other as 109 impeachment requests, police resignations and U.S. sanctions deepen the court’s crisis.
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The President of the Supreme Court of Brazil suspended on Wednesday a series of contradictory decisions between judges around the dismissal of the head of the federal police, following an investigation into a huge bank fraud. An institutional crisis that struck the electoral campaign between Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro before the election on 4 October.
(Mexico City = Yonhap News) Correspondent Song Gwang-ho = As justices of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court clash head-on over the suspension of the Federal Police Chief, the judiciary... ahead of the presidential election
Brazil's Supreme Court Crisis Deepens Before the October Election
BRAZIL · ANALYSIS Key Facts —The moment: Two Supreme Court justices are formally trying to investigate each other, weeks before Brazil votes. —The number: The Senate held 109 impeachment requests against the Court’s ten sitting justices as of 1 September. —The walkout: Eleven of the Federal Police’s fifteen directors offered to quit after Mendonça removed […]
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