Monday, 29/05/2017 18:42 (GMT+7)
Brazil's President Michel Temer has named Torquato Jardim as his new Justice Minister.
Brazil's President Michel Temer (Source: AFP/VNA)
Jardim replaces Osmar Serraglio, a lawmaker from Temer's own party, who had been in that post for just three months.
The appointment comes as Temer tries to defend himself against graft allegations, having become directly implicated in Brazil's massive corruption investigation that has engulfed the country's political class.
The Justice Ministry oversees Brazil's federal police, which along with federal prosecutors, has been leading the probes.
Mr. Torquato Jardim, born in 1949, is a Brazilian jurist. He was Minister of the Superior Electoral Court from 1988 to 1996. He was also legal adviser to the Brazilian government at the UN’s Social and Economic Council from 1980 to 1981./.
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