Tag: bribes

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

  Ex minister of Rousseff accused of receiving millions in bribes from JBS food company

  

  Brazilian Federal Police raided the home of Science and Technology Minister Gilberto Kassab on Wednesday following accusations that he received millions in bribes from the JBS food company between 2010 and 2016.

• Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 15:24 UTC

  Uruguay rejects Peruvian ex-president Alan García's asylum petition

  

  Uruguay’s President, Tabaré Vázquez announced Monday along with Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa that Peruvian former president Alan García will not receive political asylum. The rejection of the request is due to the fact that in Peru “the three powers of the State operate” freely, said Vázquez.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Venezuela: One billion dollars in bribes and illicit foreign currency operations

  

  Venezuela’s former national treasurer admitted receiving over one billion dollars in bribes as part of illicit foreign currency operations that involved a local television mogul now indicted in U.S. courts, according to U.S. court documents unsealed on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Brazil's Temer faces new charges for corruption and criminal association

  

  Brazil's federal police filed new charges against President Michel Temer on Tuesday, recommending he be put on trial for corruption, money laundering and criminal association for allegedly taking bribes to favor port management companies. The investigation report was filed to the country's top court.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 08:22 UTC

  Brazil's Lower House speaker removed by the Supreme Court on justice obstruction

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court removed the speaker of the lower house of Congress on Thursday on charges of obstructing a corruption investigation, days before an impeachment process that he engineered was expected to oust President Dilma Rousseff.

• Tuesday, February 17th 2015 - 05:09 UTC

  Rolls-Royce allegedly caught in the Petrobras bribery scandal

  

  Rolls-Royce has said it does not “tolerate improper business” after the Financial Times reported that the firm had been accused of being caught up in a bribery scandal in Brazil. Ft reported allegations that the company paid bribes for a contract with Brazilian oil firm Petrobras.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2013 - 02:13 UTC

  South American FIFA officials took “bribes”; European Blatter ‘was clumsy’

  

  Joao Havelange has quit as FIFA honorary president while Sepp Blatter has been cleared of misconduct in the ISL bribery case, a report by FIFA ethics committee said. The report described the behaviour of Havelange as “morally and ethically reproachable” in his dealings with ISL, FIFA former marketing partner which went bankrupt in 2001.

• Thursday, August 16th 2012 - 04:31 UTC

  Supreme Tribunal rejects request to include Lula da Silva in the corruption scheme

  

  Brazil Federal Supreme Tribunal denied on Wednesday a request to include former president Lula da Silva in the so-called “trial of the century” involving 38 former ministers and lawmakers accused of an extended bribes scheme.

• Tuesday, December 13th 2011 - 23:39 UTC

  US prosecutors charge former Siemens executives for paying bribes in Argentina

  

  United States prosecutors charged eight former Siemens AG executives with paying 100 million dollars in bribes for more than a decade to Argentina officials to help win a one billion dollars contract to produce national identity cards.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 21:00 UTC

  One in four admit having paid bribes last year, says Transparency International

  

  Corruption has increased over the last three years, say six out of 10 people around the world, and one in four people report paying bribes in the last year. These are the findings of the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer, a worldwide public opinion survey on corruption, released on International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December, by Transparency International (TI).