Police recommend charging Temer

– Lawyers for Brazil’s President Michel Temer on Wednesday asked the country’s top court to annul a federal police report that recommended he and his close associates be charged with graft and their assets confiscated.

Police have been investigating Temer for allegedly taking bribes

Brasilia

in return for helping shape a decree regulating Brazil’s ports.

Temer has repeatedly said he is innocent and is immune from prosecution while in office, unless the Supreme Court decides to strip his immunity. The federal police report recommended that Temer, his daughter Maristela, his former advisor Rodrigo Rocha Loures and eight others face charges and have their assets confiscated for their role in allegedly laundering bribes through real estate transactions.

Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso said he would wait to see the findings of the public prosecutors office before making a decision. – Reuters