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		</div><p>Brazilian prosecutors have brought new charges against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, adding another accusation to a series of corruption charges.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors said in a statement that Silva interfered in state-run development bank BNDES to assure financing for a small firm owned by a nephew of his late first wife.</p>
<p>The charges against him and 10 other people, including executives of Brazil&#8217;s mammoth construction company Odebrecht, include corruption, money laundering, influence trafficking and criminal organization.</p>
<p>Silva&#8217;s lawyer Cristiano Zanin said in a press conference that he did not have access to the probe and his client could not have interfered because Brazil&#8217;s development bank only makes collegial decisions.</p>
<p>He also denied the accusation by prosecutors that speeches given by the once hugely popular politician were a disguise to channel bribes.</p>
<p>The announcement is the most recent of growing legal woes facing the embattled left-leaning leader who is also a presidential hopeful for 2018.</p>
<p>Last month Sergio Moro, a judge hailed as a hero by adversaries of Silva&#8217;s Workers&#8217; Party, ruled that the former president must stand trial on money laundering and corruption charges involving company-financed improvements at a beachfront apartment. Silva says he never owned the apartment.</p>
<p>Silva will also stand trial in a separate case in which a former ally accuses him of obstruction of justice in the sprawling scandal at state-run oil giant Petrobras.</p>
<p>Mr Zanin did not speak of the specifics of the new charges, but said Silva was the &#8220;elected enemy&#8221; of politically biased Brazilian authorities and mentioned those involved in the Petrobras probe.</p>
<p>The lawyer also said he will file a petition to remove Mr Moro, who presides over many of the state-oil related investigations, from cases related to Silva.</p>
<p>Among his reasons are Mr Moro&#8217;s presence in business forums organised by Sao Paulo&#8217;s mayor elect, who is now a key member of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party, the main adversary of Silva&#8217;s Workers&#8217; Party.</p>
<p>&#8220;There has been no respect to the former president&#8217;s legal assurances,&#8221; Mr Zanin said.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a will to keep Lula out of the 2018 presidential elections&#8221; through legal wrangling.</p>
<p>Silva leads early polls for a first vote in 2018, but would lose the runoff against the vast majority of other potential presidential hopefuls.</p>
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