In a recent plea bargaining statement, the former chair of Petrobras subsidiary Transpetro, Sérgio Machado, said Brazil's Vice-President Michel Temer, now acting president, asked him for money under the table to fund his party's São Paulo mayoral candidate Gabriel Chalita in 2
Sérgio Machado, CEO of Transpetro, a transport subsidiary of Brazil's state-run Petrobras has taken a leave of absence from a position he has held for 11 years.