Tag: Brazil corruption

• Monday, March 19th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Lula da Silva “ready” to go to jail and become Brazil's first political prisoner in 21st century

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva launched a book Friday in which he says he is “ready” to go to jail and serve a 12-year and one-month sentence on a corruption charge conviction.

• Thursday, March 15th 2018 - 09:25 UTC

  Key aide of Temer indicted on corruption charges for illegal funding from Odebrecht

  

  A key aide of Brazil’s President Michel Temer has been indicted on charges of corruption and money-laundering. Senator Romero Juca, one of the major architects of the Temer administration’s reform agenda and an advocate for central bank independence, is being charged with soliciting illegal campaign funding of construction company Odebrecht in return for political favors.

• Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:39 UTC

  Prosecution wants Temer included in Odebrecht payments investigation

  

  Prosecutor general, Raquel Dodge, requested Brazilian Supreme Court justice, Edson Fachin, to include president Michel Temer in the list of those under investigation in an inquiry launched last year to determine Odebrecht's alleged payments to the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) party in 2014.

• Monday, February 26th 2018 - 09:45 UTC

  Corruption allegedly involving president Temer will be probed by top prosecutor

  

  Brazil’s top prosecutor has obtained a Supreme Court order to lift the bank secrecy of several people and companies under investigation in a port corruption case that has implicated President Michel Temer.

• Friday, February 9th 2018 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian congress member arrested on arrival from the US; he must spend five years in jail

  

  Brazil's federal police have arrested a congressman on corruption charges at Sao Paulo's international airport, saying they feared he could try to escape to Paraguay. A panel of the country's top court this week ordered the arrest of Congressman Joao Rodrigues after his corruption conviction was upheld by a federal court.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

  Another Temer minister appointment on the cliff

  

  With Brazil’s unpopular government battling to hold together a congressional coalition, President Michel Temer has been unlucky with his pick of cabinet ministers. Seven quit or were fired in his first year in office, four of them following allegations of wrongdoing. Among them, Geddel Vieira Lima, who was eventually arrested after police identified his fingerprints in an apartment filled with US$16 million in cash.

• Thursday, January 25th 2018 - 07:05 UTC

  Brazil shares surge as Lula's corruption conviction is confirmed ruling him out his presidential bid

  

  Brazilian assets soared, with the Bovespa surging above 83,000 for the first time ever, and the currency Real surging through 3.20 after three judges in a local appeals court upheld a conviction for corruption imposed last July on ex-President Lula da Silva.

• Wednesday, January 24th 2018 - 07:31 UTC

  Lula supporters will launch his presidential candidacy whatever a court decides on the bribe conviction

  

  Brazilian politicians, voters and investors will find out this Wednesday whether an appeals court will allow the country’s popular leader, Lula da Silva, to run for president this year after being found guilty of accepting a bribe.

• Monday, January 22nd 2018 - 23:26 UTC

  No matter what, Brazil's 2018 election will be controversial

  

  Brazil will head to the polls on October 7 in what is set to be the most polarizing presidential race in living memory. While the final ballot is beginning to take shape, there is still a question mark over the candidacy of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party), who may be ineligible to run after his impending appeals court decision on charges of corruption. The imbroglio surrounding Lula guarantees that however the 2018 election turns out, both sides will feel they have reason to call foul play.

• Friday, December 29th 2017 - 10:04 UTC

  Temer clashes with Supreme Court over Christmas pardon list that included corruption-related convicts

  

  The head of Brazil’s Supreme Court suspended parts of a Christmas decree from President Michel Temer granting pardons to convicted criminals on Thursday, saying Temer’s actions needed further examination by the court. Cármen Lúcia ruled largely in favor of a legal challenge by Brazil’s top prosecutor, Raquel Dodge, who said on Wednesday that the pardons were unconstitutional and threatened a probe into the country’s largest-ever corruption scandal.