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Brazil Corruption Probe Widens; Bank CEO, Senate Leader Arrested

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The chief executive of Brazil's biggest independent investment bank and the leading senator in the governing coalition were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of obstructing the country's most sweeping corruption investigation ever. The detention of such prominent power brokers on orders from the Supreme Court raised the stakes dramatically in a bribery scandal that started with state-run oil company Petrobras and now threatens the heights of Brazilian banking and politics. The...

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