The Brazilian prosecutor's office asked that former president Michel Temer be tried in another corruption case

The prosecutor Brazilian Tuesday asks the court to open a criminal trial for pbadive bribery to the former president Michel Temer for his responsibility for the payment of a bribe of 500,000 reales (approximately $ 129,870) in cash to an auxiliary.

It is a different process – among the 10 that Temer faces in justice – that led to the imprisonment of the former president last Thursday and for which he was released on Monday.

The prosecutor's office indicated in a statement that the complaint filed in 2017 before the Supreme Court, and that did not advance because Temer then had a privileged jurisdiction, was confirmed Tuesday before the federal judge of the 15th court of Brasilia, where the case was dismissed after Temer was succeeded to the presidency by the leader of the far right Jair Bolsonaro January 1st.

The public prosecutor said that this was the case opened after the disclosure of a video in which the MP Rodrigo Rocha Loures, close badociate of Temer who acted as adviser to the presidency, seems to receive a suitcase of 500 000 reais as part of a bribe paid by the meat giant J & F for favors of the government.

According to the agency, the criminal charge relates to the crime of pbadive bribery because of "the receipt of undue advantages offered by Joesley Batista (the controller of the J & F) and handed over by the J & F executive Ricardo Saud. "

The prosecution added that the complaint indicated that the meat giant's payments for the favors of the presidency had added 38 million reais (about 9.9 million dollars) in nine months.

According to the complaint now before the trial judge, the payments involved bribes to the political group led by Temer, who denied being the beneficiary of the money seized in the suitcase. Rocha Loures.

The video in which the deputy of the time receives the money was recorded in front of a restaurant in Sao Paulo on April 28, 2017, a month and a half later. Joesley Batista I went to a meeting at the presidential residence to discuss with Temer the measures taken by the executive for the benefit of the meat production company.

According to the prosecutor's office, this meeting "was organized by Rocha Loures to deal with non-republican issues and to initiate criminal proceedings".

The request for judicial overturn of a trial for the former president comes one day after Temer's release after spending four nights in pretrial detention, suspected of being the "head" from a criminal organization that has committed corruption crimes over the past 40 years.

The release of Temer, 78, was ordered by a magistrate of second instance after the trial judge had ordered the arrest on Monday in connection with a case related to Java Jato, the largest operation to fight corruption in the history of Brazil.

In this case, the prosecution accused him of benefiting from bribes paid by the construction company Engevix in exchange for favoring it in contracts with the state Eletronuclearand being the "leader" of a criminal organization, which has diverted nearly $ 500 million of public resources in 40 years.

Similarly, former Wellington Minister Moreira Franco, a major Temer ally in the party, was released on Monday. Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), along with five other detainees in the same operation in which Temer was captured.

The magistrate who ordered the release admitted that there were indications that could incriminate the persons involved, while stating that the justice of the peace could not order the provisional detention of the accused, because the facts have not been proven because "it is not proven" that suspects attempt against "public order", "conceal evidence" or "hinder" investigations.

With his detention last week, Temer became the second president of the history of Brazil to intervene in prison for a case related to Lava Jato after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), who has been serving a 12-year, one-month sentence since April for bribery and money laundering.