Fresh graft allegations hit Brazil Senate president

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

By AFP 1 hour ago.

Fresh corruption allegations hit the president of Brazil's Senate on Monday, with prosecutors linking him to a mega-scandal over the state oil firm Petrobras.

They are the latest in a series of accusations threatening to destabilize the country's President Michel Temer as he seeks to fix Latin America's biggest economy.

Senate speaker Renan Calheiros, 61, Brazil's third-most powerful official, already faces trial on embezzlement charges in a case that nearly saw him suspended from his post last week.

In a new case, state prosecutors said Monday that they suspect him and another lawmaker of receiving bribes worth some $242,000 from the construction firm Serveng in return for helping it win contracts.

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(These are the same fascists who overthrew President Dilma Rousseff, former rebel during Brazil's last military dictatorship, claiming Dilma, who was tortured and spent years in prison, got greedy and was corrupt!)

[WhiteTara]

1. I think this is pushback against

women in power. It's a man's world, damn it and women need to know their place.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Brazil prosecutor brings new graft charges against Senate head

Mon Dec 12, 2016 | 11:51am EST

Brazil prosecutor brings new graft charges against Senate head


Brazil's top prosecutor brought new charges against Senate President Renan Calheiros on Monday, accusing him of taking part in corruption at state oil company Petrobras a week after he was nearly removed in an earlier embezzlement case.

Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot said Calheiros had received part of a donation of 800,000 reais ($240,000) in 2010 from an oil and gas contractor in return for keeping a senior Petrobras executive in the post where he was later convicted of currying favors.

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Calheiros was indicted on Dec. 1 by the Supreme Court over allegations of misusing public funds in a nine-year-old case involving the payment of child support for a daughter from an extramarital affair.

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Under Brazil's constitution, members of Congress can only be tried by the Supreme Court, which often takes years to rule on major investigations because of an extensive backlog of cases.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-idUSKBN14120W