Brazil’s senate leader indicted for alleged embezzlement

‘Brazil’s top court has voted to put Senate President Renan Calheiros, a key ally of President Michel Temer, on trial for alleged embezzlement.
The Brazilian Supreme Court voted 8-3 on Thursday to try Calheiros for allegedly misusing public funds in a nine-year-old case.
According to prosecutors, Calheiros falsified his Senate expense accounts, using funds to cover up child support payments for a daughter he had in an extramarital affair.
The Senate’s president faces 11 counts of corruption in total, eight of which have been described as kickbacks in a massive scandal involving state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., also known as Petrobras.’
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