Tag: bribes

• Wednesday, February 12th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Ex Ecuadorean president and several ministers on trial for accepting millions of dollars in bribes

  

  Former President Rafael Correa went on trial before Ecuador’s highest court starting Monday on charges of campaign finance fraud and accepting millions of dollars in bribes.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Kenji Fujimori faces 12-year prison for attempting to buy votes in Peruvian congress

  

  Peruvian prosecutors are seeking a 12-year prison term for former lawmaker Kenji Fujimori on charges of attempting to buy votes in a plot to keep ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from being impeached. Prosecutor Bersabeth Revilla accused the son of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori of bribery and influence-peddling.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 13:19 UTC

  Former ex-president Garcia shoots himself when police tried to arrest him

  

  Peru’s former president Alan Garcia shot himself early on Wednesday after police arrived at his home in the capital Lima to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation, a police source said.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:27 UTC

  Brazil's Justice: Michel Temer hit with new corruption charges

  

  Brazil's former president Michel Temer was hit with corruption charges on Friday, just a day after being charged in a separate graft case, the federal prosecutors office in Rio de Janeiro said.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 10:51 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez in court refuses to answer questions and claims she is a victim of political persecution

  

  Argentina's former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner appeared in court on Monday for the third time in relation to the “corruption notebooks” scandal in which she is accused of accepting millions of dollars' worth of bribes.

• Thursday, February 21st 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez corruption trial set to begin next week postponed until May

  

  The corruption trial of former Argentina president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, set to begin next week, has been postponed until May, authorities said on Monday. It is one of several corruption trials facing the opposition Peronist politician, who turned 66 on Tuesday.

• Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 10:03 UTC

  Global commodity trading firms investigated in Switzerland and by the FBI

  

  Pressure is growing on global commodity trading firms with strong ties to Switzerland for their alleged involvement in the “Car Wash” corruption scandal in Brazil. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating two Vitol executives in the Americas, according to Reuters news agency.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 09:17 UTC

  Former minister and advisor confirms payments of bribes in hand to Lula da Silva

  

  Antonio Palocci, who was minister during the governments of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, affirmed that he gave the former president, in “several opportunities”, cash proceeds of bribes from the construction companies Odebrecht and Andrade Gutierrez, according to the Globo Group.

• Saturday, January 12th 2019 - 10:22 UTC

  EU multinationals refuse to collaborate with Brazil justice investigating Petrobras corruption

  

  Commodities trader Trafigura has refused a judge's order to hand over the email archives of two former executives in Brazil who are facing corruption charges over accusations they bribed officials at state-run oil firm Petrobras.

• Friday, December 21st 2018 - 11:58 UTC

  Prosecutors waiting for Temer when he steps down accused of “institutionalized corruption”

  

  Brazil's attorney general has accused President Michele Temer of sitting at the center of “an institutionalized system of corruption” and has asked the courts to charge him with crimes as soon as he leaves office at the year's end.