Brazil’s president has called a corruption charge against him fiction, saying there is no proof that he took bribes.

President Michel Temer made his first comments since the attorney general formally accused him of corruption late on Monday.

Speaking to reporters and allies in the capital Brasilia, Mr Temer said his career and life had been “productive” and “clean”.

Michel TemerTemer says accusations of corruption are an “attack on my personal dignity” (Eraldo Peres/AP)

He said that as a lawyer, he knew when accusations had basis and when they did not.

Mr Temer called the accusation “an attack on my personal dignity”.