Brazilian justice minister resigns
Updated: 2016-03-01 16:25
(Xinhua)
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Brazil's Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo speaks at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia in this July 15, 2015 file photo. [Photo/Agencies] |
According to media reports, Cardozo was under pressure from the ruling Workers Party because he failed to curb a corruption investigation on the party's politicians and former Petrobras functionaries.
Cardozo will become the attorney general, and he will be replaced by Wellington Cesar Lima e Silva, former general prosecutor of the Bahia State, according to the presidency's Social Communications Secretariat.
The current attorney general, Luis Inacio Adams, is reportedly to leave the government for personal reasons.
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