Brazil’s Federal Police on Tuesday asked the Prosecutor General’s office to charge President Michel Temer and ten others, including his daughter, with corruption, money laundering and racketeering. The federal police investigated for more than a year whether Temer, who has been in power since May 2016, took bribes to issue a decree in May 2017 to benefit companies in the port sector.
The Prosecutor’s Office must now decide whether to file a criminal complaint against the president, if it requests further investigation, or to order the case closed. For the Supreme Court to investigate and possibly prosecute the president, according to the Constitution, it must get Congress’ green light. In the report delivered Tuesday to the Supreme Court, federal police also requested that all those under investigation have their assets frozen.
