Brazil ex-president Temer hit with new corruption charges -prosecutor
MARCH 29, 2019 / 12:38 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Brad Brooks
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil’s former president Michel Temer was hit with corruption charges on Friday, just a day after being charged in a separate graft case, the federal prosecutors office in Rio de Janeiro said.
Temer, who was president from 2016 until the end of 2018, was arrested last week as part of an investigation into kickbacks in the construction of a nuclear plant. He has since been released and has said he is innocent.
Prosecutors have said Temer, a lifelong politician, led a “criminal organization” that acted during the past 40 years, which may have taken upward of 1.8 billion reais ($462.53 million) in bribes or pending future kickbacks as part of numerous schemes. The one he was charged for on Friday is related to the Angra nuclear power plant complex on the Rio de Janeiro coast and other state firms.
Temer, 78, served for two years as Sao Paulo state’s prosecutor general starting in 1983. In 1985 he was elected to the federal Congress, where he served until becoming former president Dilma Rousseff’s vice president in 2011. He took over as president when Rousseff was impeached.
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