Brazilian President, Temer waves aside corruption charges, says it’s fiction

Embattled Brazilian President Michel Temer has waved aside corruption charges leveled against him claiming that the charge is a fiction.

He also accused the prosecutor general of seeking ‘revenge, destruction and vengeance’ with the indictment.

Temer made the comments a day after the country’s top prosecutor presented a scathing indictment against him which he dismissed saying it is a “soap opera plot”.

The prosecutors “created a soap opera plot,” Temer said in a brief statement to reporters and allies, his first comments since the charge sheet was presented. “I say without fear of being wrong that the accusation is fiction.”

Read also: Corruption charges filed against embattled Brazilian President Temer

Temer was slammed with corruption charges by prosecutors who accuse him of receiving a $150,000 bribe from the boss of a meatpacking company implicated in a corruption scandal.

The Supreme Court, Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot also received a filing against Temer for alleged obstruction of justice and membership of a criminal group.

If found guilty, the charge against Temer which he has vehemently denied could possibly make him the country’s first serving leader to face a criminal trial while in office.

 

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