Brazilian Federal Police will analyze documents before questioning Temer, says Supreme Court.

Reuters - Supreme Court Justice Roberto Barroso authorized the Federal Police to analyze new documents before questioning President Michel Temer in the investigation in which he is being investigated for suspected passive corruption and money laundering in connection with a decree issued this year that changed rules for the port system.

Last month, Barroso had already allowed the Federal Police to question Temer as part of the investigation. The president's defense team had informed the Supreme Court that he would respond in writing in a deposition requested by the Attorney General of the Republic, Raquel Dodge.

The investigation into the ports is the only one Temer is facing while in office, following the rejection by the Chamber of Deputies of two accusations against the president presented by former Attorney General Rodrigo Janot.

At the end of June, on the same day he filed the first complaint against Temer for passive corruption, Janot requested the opening of a new investigation against the president and his former advisor Rodrigo Rocha Loures to investigate the suspicion of bribery payments to both for the drafting of the ports decree that benefited the company Rodrimar.

In the most recent ruling, issued on Monday, the Supreme Court minister authorized new investigative actions requested by the Federal Police, such as obtaining records of electoral donations from the company Rodrimar to Temer and the PMDB party in the last elections, records of executives from the company entering the Presidential Palace, and documents showing the approval process of the decree within the government.

Temer and the others involved deny any irregularities in the drafting of the decree.