In the plea-bargaining testimony offered to prosecutors by Sérgio Machado, the former head of Transpetro, the subsidiary of the state-run oil giant Petrobras, he named over 20 politicians who received illegal campaign finance contributions from the company. The most striking name was that of Michel Temer, the interim president, who Machado accuses of soliciting R$1.5m (US$400,000) for the 2012 São Paulo mayoral candidate, Gabriel Chalita, of the Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB). Temer dismissed the claim as “completely untrue”. Whether or not the claim stacks up, the accusations complicate life further for the Temer administration, already battling a slew of corruption charges.End of preview - This article contains approximately 715 words.
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