Brazil's Temer cited 44 times in corruption testimony
Brazil's Temer cited 44 times in corruption testimony
Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press
Updated 4:46 pm, Saturday, December 10, 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A former executive at a mega-construction company cited Brazilian President Michel Temer 44 times during testimony to federal prosecutors in a corruption probe, making accusations of illegal campaign financing that put his embattled administration at an even bigger risk of ending within months.
The 82-pages of testimony by former Odebrecht director Claudio Melo Filho was obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday. If his allegations that Temer illegally financed his campaign are confirmed by Brazil' top electoral court next year, the president will be removed and Congress will pick a successor.
Melo Filho, one of the many executives who signed plea-bargain deals in the corruption investigation at state-run oil giant Petrobras, made accusations against Temer, senior Cabinet members and close aides and allies of the president.
About 100 business executives and politicians have already been arrested or are under investigation in Brazil for allegedly overcharging contracts with Petrobras and other state-run companies to pay for bribes and election campaigns.
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Temer ‘linked to illegal cash transfers’
December 11 2016 12:09 AM
Micheal Tenmenr
Reuters/Sao Paulo
A former director of Brazilian engineering firm Odebrecht SA told prosecutors that the company made several illegal contributions to politicians from the ruling PMDB party including President Michel Temer, according to a report aired by Globo TV.
If prosecutors prove the accusations, Temer could face an impeachment trial that could destabilise his six-month-old government, which already lost several ministers after similar accusations from other construction firms embroiled in wide-ranging corruption probe.
Claudio Melo Filho, a former institutional relations director at Odebrecht, said according to the report, that he took part in a dinner at Temer’s official residency in Brasília in 2014 where company executives agreed to transfer 10mn reais ($2.95mn) to finance PMDB campaigns that year.
The director said he and other Odebrecht officials received indications from PMDB politicians who took part in their meetings that the company would be favoured in votes in Congress that affected the engineering group.
Reuters was not able to verify the report. Temer’s press office released a statement denying the accusations.
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