Michel Temer spent his first night in jail in Rio and testify this Friday before the judge.

Former Brazilian President Michel Temer spent his first night in detention for corruption in a room of the federal police headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. According to the site G1 I should testify this Friday to the authorities.

The exmandatario, 78 years old, is in a "special" room of about twenty square meters in the Regional Superintendence of the Federal Police of Rio de Janeiro, located in the port area of ​​the city.

The room, located on the third floor of the building, no windowsbut has a private bathroom and air conditioning, according to the Globo Group.

Fear, a historical leader of the Brazilian Democracy Movement (MDB), was president between 2016 and 2018 after serving as vice president of Dilma Rousseff, whose dismissal was supported by the dismissal.

Temer's defense seized the regional court of the second region of a habeas corpus to request his release.

Judge Marcelo Bretas ordered his arrest Thursday in the case in which they are investigating bribes from Engevix, in exchange for your participation in a Millionaire contract for the construction of the Angra 3 nuclear power plant, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

According to the prosecutor's office in Rio de Janeiro, during his political career, Temer allegedly participated in the deviation of public contracts for some 500 million dollars.

Judge Bretas considers that Temer has diverted these contracts by the intervention of his personal friend of retired Colonel Joao Lima, considered his leading man, which was an Engevix partner in the nuclear power plant sector.

"Colonel Lima and Michel Temer act together since the 1980s", while Temer was Secretary of Public Security in Sao Paulo, said prosecutor Fabiana Schneider at a press conference.

The complaint that led to the arrest originated from the confession of the owner of Engevix, Jose Antunes Sobrinho, obtained in exchange for a reduction of sentence.

"The allegation received" is one of the tools that allowed Lava Jato Accuse or condemn hundreds of businessmen and politicians in the foregroundfrom almost all parties, breaking with a culture of impunity.