In Brazil, the President is caught in another scandal
In Brazil, the President is caught in another scandal. Prosecutors filed criminal charges of "passive corruption" against President Michel Temer, said on Monday the state news Agency Agencia Brasil.
Allegations that a Brazilian Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot filed in the Federal Supreme court, came after a secret recording surfaced in a conversation between Temer and Josli Batista, President of JBS, the company's food processing. In the recordings you can hear the conversation about how to pay bribes. Temer said that the recording was forged.
In the complaint to the President says that Batista paid Temer $152 thousand which was obtained in the portfolio of the former Federal legislator Rodrigo loresa the Roshi, who was also charged in the case. Passive corruption means that the President was to receive payment through an intermediary. In a statement, plea Batista said Temer also condoned payments to the former speaker of the house of Eduardo Cunha in exchange for his silence in the investigation of corruption.
Temer was originally Vice-President, Dilma Rousseff - first woman President in Brazil. He became one of the key players who led the charge that he was charged RUSEFF violation of the laws on the budget. He became President after impeachment in September.
The second term of the Brazilian President, who was forced to leave his post less than a year, caused not settled the markets and investors. Brazil faced one of the worst and prolonged recessions in recent history.
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