Brazil: The former president Michel Temer involved in the scandal "Lava Jato" – 09/05/2019

The former Brazilian president Michel Temer was delivered this Thursday to the federal police of Sao Pauloa few hours after a regional court ordered his arrest again to serve his detention sentence in the context of the corruption scandal known as "Jato wash ".

According to the Brazilian agency, the former president left his family's home in Sao Paulo at 2:40 pm (local time) with his lawyer, Eduardo Carnelos, to address the commissioner. the federal police.

In this way, Fear accepted the order published a few hours ago by the Federal Court of the Second Region (TRF-2), by two votes against 0, so that return to prison as a preventive measure.

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The former president is suspected of receiving bribes in 2014, when he was vice president of the government of Dilma Rousseff, in exchange for works contracts in the Angra 3 nuclear power plant, in the south of the state of Rio.

The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (FPO) investigates "bribery, embezzlement and money laundering offenses" with "illegal payments" by an employercriminal organization headed by Michel Temer. "

According to the prosecution, this organization reportedly got the promise to receive at least R $ 1,800 million (about $ 470 million) through a complex system of businesses.

Temer was arrested along with nine other people on March 21 in Sao Paulo and immediately transferred to Rio de Janeiro where Judge Marcelo Bretas ordered the Conservative politician to be held in custody. However, four days later, he was released and obtained access to the habeas corpus filed by the defense.

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"It's outrageous", said the leader of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB) about his arrest during a phone conversation that he had with journalist Kennedy Alencar, of the local CBN radio, while he According to him, he was in the company of the federal police.

The "Lava Jato" case is the same for which former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sentenced in 2018 to more than twelve years in prison. In his case, he was found guilty of accepting a luxury triplex in Sao Paulo as a payment from the Brazilian construction company OAS to his political favors.

Fear, who already has several cases in progress, arrived at Plbadto Palace in 2011 as vice-president of Dilma Rousseff, but in 2016, after the dismissal of the president at Congress, he became the new head of state. State, post he held until the last January 1, when he ceded power to Jair Bolsonaro.