Another political scandal in Brazil, again in the wake of that investigation, on the national oil company Petrobras, which had already blown up the previous government, led by Dilma Rousseff. According to some recordings indeed the current president Michael Temer would have authorized bribes to buy the silence of the former speaker of the House, Eduardo Cunha. This was announced by O Globo underlining that Temer's aim was to avoid new accusations linked to the Lava Jato investigation, the Brazilian "Clean Hands".
Shortly thereafter, Brasilia denied and Temer claimed "that he never asked for silence from former deputy Cunha". The two entrepreneurs who have raised the media fuss are Joesley and Wesley Batista, owners of one of the groups hit by the scandal of spoiled meat sold in exchange for bribes by 21 companies. The two have a deal with the prosecutor's office to expose Temer's attempts to sweep everything under the rug.
Impeachment has already been sought by Alessandro Moron of Sustainability Network, an opposition party led by Marina Silva. Senators from the workers' party, whose founder is former president Lula, discussed the case at a night meeting. According to reports, Joesley Batista met with Temer on March 7, recording the conversation in which the president authorized him to pass a bribe to Cunha, who is in jail after being convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes in the of the scandal of the black funds of the giant Petrobras.
“You have to keep doing it”, these would have been Temer's words. The Workers' Party and five other parties have therefore called for the resignation of the president and early elections. The Batista brothers are now offering registration in exchange for a reduced sentence. Temer, for his part, makes it known that he does not want to resign and that he is only the victim of a conspiracy. This impeachment case would come after the one against former president Dilma Roussef, of whom Temer was deputy. It all stems from the mother of all investigations, the one for the Petrobras scandal that saw construction bigwigs pay bribes of billions of dollars to prominent politicians, especially for the award of contracts.
Predictable the crash of the Brazilian Stock Exchange in the wake of the political scandal: at the start of the session, the Bovespa index lost 10%.
