The corruption case, involving the payment of bribes by meatpacker JBS SA, had paralyzed Temer's reform agenda for six months and weakened his government.

Brazil's Congress rejects corruption case against President Temer

The judge found?Lula guilty of accepting 3.7 million reais ($1.2 million) worth of bribes from engineering firm OAS SA, the amount of money prosecutors said the company spent refurbishing a beach apartment for Lula in return for his help winning contracts with state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro

Ex-Brazil President Lula convicted on graft charges, sentenced to nearly 10 years in jail

Brazil's top court said it has accumulated enough evidence of bribes against Temer to initiate an investigation

Brazil president Michel Temer accepted bribes, say police

Temer last week refused to resign in the face of new corruption allegations against him and his closest aides, putting his government and its reform agenda on the brink of collapse

Brazil: Protests erupt against scandal-hit President Temer demanding his ouster

Lula is the highest-profile defendant in a sprawling graft probe known as "Operation Car Wash."

Brazil ex-president Lula appears in court to face corruption charges

She faces allegations of having taken illegal state loans to hide the country's budget holes in 2014

Brazilian senate to vote on President Dilma Rousseff impeachment