Corruption Trial Looms for Key Aide of Brazil’s President Temer

  • Senator Romero Juca has been indicted on corruption charges
  • Juca is one of the president’s staunchest political allies

Romero Juca 

Photographer: Andressa Anholete/AFP/Getty Images

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A key aide of Brazil’s President Michel Temer has been indicted on charges of corruption and money-laundering.

Senator Romero Juca, one of the major architects of the Temer administration’s reform agenda and an advocate for central bank independenceBloomberg Terminal, is being charged with soliciting illegal campaign funding of construction company Odebrecht in return for political favors.