Brazil’s Temer braces for graft probe fallout
The Brazilian president enacts an emergency plan as the Supreme Court may release secret testimony
Rio de Janeiro — In the face of pending corruption allegations likened to a ticking bomb, Brazilian President Michel Temer is building himself a bunker. An embezzlement and bribery probe, Operation Car Wash, has been shaking high-level Brazilian politics for almost three years. But far from winding down, it is expected to escalate soon. Prosecutors are looking into whether Temer and many others, often from his PMDB party, took part in a corruption network that embezzled funds from state oil company Petrobras and filled election campaign coffers with dirty money. The president and some of his allies are among those implicated in testimony given in plea bargains by 77 executives from Odebrecht, a construction firm that ran a secret department for bribing politicians. The testimony remains secret. But it could soon be released by the Supreme Court — and the president’s team is scrambling to take cover. "The approach of the tsunami has prompted the government to enact its emergency plan...
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