Brazil’s Prosecutor General Raquel Dodge has charged President Michel Temer with corruption and money laundering uncovered in an investigation into a fraud related to port concessions, according to a statement from her office.
It is the third corruption charge levelled at the outgoing president, who on January 1 will be succeeded by Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right politician promising an anti-corruption crusade. Bolsonaro won the October elections, in which Temer did not run.
The prosecutor said in a statement on Wednesday that Temer and five other people were suspected of implication in the bribery accusation, which involved four port companies making 32 million reais ($8m) in the alleged illegal payments.
Temer was also suspected of money laundering in the case.