Brazil’s President Assails His Accuser as Corruption Scandal Intensifies
Mr. Temer also claimed on Saturday that Mr. Batista’s recording of their meeting one evening in March at the president’s residence in the capital, Brasília, had been "manipulated
and adulterated." Mr. Temer said he was issuing a request to the Supreme Court to suspend the investigation into him.
Paulo said that This does not reduce the political crisis and does not improve Temer’s situation,
Mr. Batista said that He committed the perfect crime,
Mr. Temer contended that Mr. Batista, 44, an heir to the JBS global beef empire, profited immensely from currency
and stock trades in the days before the recording was made public.
Calls for the president to resign have intensified since Brazil’s prosecutor general said Mr. Temer was facing an investigation
into claims he received millions of dollars in illicit payments and sought to obstruct an anticorruption drive.
Allies of Mr. Temer have been forced to resign over claims
that they tried to stymie corruption inquiries, but Mr. Temer has had some success in persuading lawmakers to approve austerity measures aimed at shoring up confidence in the economy.
According to testimony released by the Supreme Court, executives at JBS said
that Mr. Temer received about $4.6 million in illegal campaign contributions in 2014, when he ran for vice president on Ms. Rousseff’s ticket, and pocketed some of the money for himself.
