Police Report Suggests Brazil President Temer Used Family Assets to Launder Money

[Judi Lynn]

04/27/2018 - 11H23


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CAMILA MATTOSO
FROM SÃO PAULO

Six months ago, a Federal Police investigation began looking into the approval of a bill concerning the country's port sector. It now believes that president Michel Temer, one of the investigation's main suspects, may have laundered bribe money through the renovation of properties belonging to family members and acquired assets registered under other people's names in order to conceal assets.

Among the owners of such properties are Marcela Temer, the president's wife, and the couple's son.

At the current stage of the investigation, Federal Police investigators are maintaining that the president was payed R$ 2 million (US$ 576 thousand) in bribes through Colonel João Baptista de Lima Filho back in 2014.

That same year, when Temer was re-elected as vice-president on the Dilma-Temer ticket, two renovations estimated at approximately that amount took place at the home of the president's daughter, Maristela, and of his mother-in-law, Norma Tedeschi.

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http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2018/04/1966567-police-report-suggests-brazil-president-temer-used-family-assets-to-launder-money.shtml