BRASILIA — Brazil’S prosecutor-general has requested the arrest of Senate Chief Renan Calheiros and other ruling party leaders over an alleged corruption cover-up, raising questions over the future of acting President Michel Temer’s administration, according to local media.In a request filed with the Supreme Court at least a week ago, prosecutor Rodrigo Janot alleged that Calheiros, former president Jose Sarney and Senator Romero Juca, sought to obstruct the country’s largest corruption probe known as Carwash, Folha de S Paulo and O Globo newspapers reported on Tuesday.Janot is seeking arrest warrants for the politicians and also for suspended lower house chief Eduardo Cunha, O Globo reported. All four are members of Temer’s PMDB party.The allegations are the latest in a series of setbacks for Temer since he took office last month. Two of his cabinet members have had to step down and others have been implicated in the same corruption scandal that has rattled Brazil’s political and c...
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