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
Former Petrobras Downstream director Paulo Roberto Costa said in testimony before a Federal Court that Renan Calheiros, president of the Senate, had an “agent” who negotiated bribes with Costa.