Brazil's justice has accepted a new complaint for corruption against former president Michel Temer

A Brazilian federal court on Thursday accepted a new complaint about corruption issues against the former president Michel Temer, who left office on January 1 and last week he spent four days in prison on the orders of a judge.

In this case, the judge's decision Rodrigo Bentemuller refers to a alleged bribe of R $ 500,000 (approximately $ 128,000) that he received one of his badistants, whom the police arrested in 2017 with a suitcase in which was the money, supposedly in fact for the former president.

Temer, who handed over power to Jair Bolsonaro on January 1, was arrested last week and spent four days in jail, but for another of the ten cases he faces in total, all related to: alleged corruption.

According to the now accepted complaint, the money found in the suitcase that was carrying Rodrigo Roucha Loures, a close badociate of Temer, was in fact for the former president and had been agreed with the owners of the J & F meat company of the time, the brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista.

Roucha Loures was even registered by the police when he came out of a restaurant in San Pablo with his full money suitcase, which had been handed over by a J & F officer, and the video was sentenced at the time by Temer, who has already been in the exercise of the presidency.

A month and a half before the arrest of Roucha Loures, the local press had revealed an explosive sound in which he listened to Temer talking with Joesley Batista what steps the government could take to benefit the meat processor.

In this regard, the prosecutor's office came to claim Temer's immunity in order to respond to justice, but the Congress denied it, a procedure that could only be resumed once again. once his mandate left.

Last week, when he was arrested for another case in which he is responsible for corruption, Temer became the second president of the history of Brazil to intervene in the prison for a case related to the Lava Jato operation, which since 2014 has investigated and sentenced dozens of politicians and businessmen.

The other is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) sentenced to 12 years and one month in prison since last April for corruption and money laundering.

Temer, now 78, was vice-president of the government of Dilma Rousseff and replaced him in power in May 2016, following the process that led to the dismissal of the president for tax irregularity. .

(With EFE information)