Tag: Edson Fachin

• Monday, June 25th 2018 - 08:27 UTC

  Another judicial setback for Lula: Supreme Court cancels appeal ruling on his release from jail

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court has cancelled a ruling set for Tuesday on an appeal by former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be freed from prison while he attempts to overturn his corruption sentence.

• Monday, April 17th 2017 - 08:13 UTC

  Brazil's Odebrecht in nine years paid out bribes equivalent to US$ 3.3 billion

  

  Odebrecht SA , the Brazilian engineering company at the center of a historic corruption scandal, paid about US$3.3 billion in bribes over a nine-year period that ran through 2014, according to testimony cited by local media in Sao Paulo.

• Wednesday, April 12th 2017 - 08:41 UTC

  Corruption quake in Brazil: Justice to investigate, 9 ministers, 24 senators, 39 deputies and 3 governors

  

  An institutional and political earthquake is shaking Brazil: the Supreme Court has opened corruption investigations into nine ministers, three governors, 24 senators, 39 members of the Lower House and other elected officials totaling at least 108 politicians, according to a report published on Tuesday by O Estado de Sao Paulo.

• Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:33 UTC

  Brazil's major corruption scandal has a new Justice who promises prudence and transparency

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court named a new justice on Thursday to oversee cases against politicians caught in a giant corruption probe after the previous judicial point man was killed in an airplane crash.