Fresh graft allegations hit Brazil Senate president [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Fresh graft allegations hit Brazil Senate president

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 fascist guys 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!)

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