FILE PHOTO: Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray gives a speech to senators during a plenary session of Mexico's Senate in Mexico City, Mexico October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's attorney general sought an arrest warrant for former Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray in a case involving scandal-plagued Brazil construction firm Odebrecht but was blocked by a judge, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday.
Videgaray and other high-ranking politicians, who wielded power under Lopez Obrador's predecessor, were accused of corruption in the deposition of a former chief executive officer of Mexican national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, leaked in August.
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