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Former Brazilian President Michel Temer is suspected of being at the head of a criminal organization. REUTERS / Adriano Machado / Photo File

After Lula, it is the second former head of state who falls in the cracks of the garnet anti-corruption investigation Lava Jato.

With our correspondent in Sao Paulo, Martin Bernard

Less than three months after leaving the presidency, Michel Temer was asked to settle his accounts with the courts. The former president was picked up Thursday morning by the federal police in Sao Paulo at his home and taken to Rio for interrogation as part of an investigation into corruption.

Michel Temer had already been the subject of prosecutorial charges twice when he was President, but he enjoyed partial immunity, and Congress avoided a trial .

At 78, this veteran of Brazilian politics finds himself before the common justice. The big anti-corruption investigation, dubbed Lava Jato, accuses him of being at the head of a criminal organization for 40 years.

This is the second former president of the Republic caught in the cracks of Lava Jato. Condemned for corruption and money laundering, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is already serving a 12-year prison sentence.