Brazil’s Bolsonaro faces more corruption accusations

President Jair Bolsonaro is accused of involvement in scheme to skim his aides’ salaries, news website UOL reported.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been accused of being involved in a scheme to skim salaries of his aides while a federal deputy, Brazilian website UOL reported on Monday, heaping more political pressure on the far-right leader. Citing what it said were audio recordings of Bolsonaro’s former sister-in-law explaining his role in the alleged racket, UOL said the racket involved hiring close associates as employees and then receiving a cut of their public salaries back from them. The UOL report is the first time Bolsonaro has been directly implicated in such a scheme, known locally as rachadinha.