Brasilia — Brazil’s President Michel Temer has been hit with a second set of criminal charges, as corruption allegations continue to plague his scandal-tainted administration. On Thursday, in an e-mail, the office of the chief public prosecutor, Rodrigo Janot, formally accused Temer of obstruction of justice and criminal conspiracy, saying he and several of his closest aides took kickbacks worth 587-million reais ($188m) from government contracts. In a statement, the presidential press office said that Janot had "accepted false and lying testimony" and that his team ought to be investigated. It added that the president was "certain that, at the end of all this process, the truth will prevail". The highly anticipated charges ends a week in which the CEO of the world’s largest meat packer and a former governor were arrested, the agriculture minister’s apartment was raided, and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva testified in court on corruption charges. Temer, who has repeatedl...
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