Tag: Delcidio Amaral

• Tuesday, March 29th 2016 - 08:38 UTC

  Brazil's Bar Association filed an impeachment request against Rousseff for obstruction of justice

  

  The Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) filed a request on Monday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for obstructing justice, fiscal accounting tricks and granting international soccer body FIFA tax-exempt status during the 2014 World Cup.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2016 - 05:14 UTC

  Construction tycoon sentenced to 19 years in prison for Petrobras corruption scandal

  

  Brazilian construction tycoon Marcelo Odebrecht, 47, was sentenced Tuesday to 19 years in prison for corruption and money laundering in the giant Petrobras embezzlement scandal shaking Latin America's biggest country Petrobras in what prosecution has identified as Operation Car Wash.

• Thursday, November 26th 2015 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil in shock: a leading senator and billionaire fund manager arrested for obstructing justice

  

  Brazil is in shock following the arrest by police on Wednesday of a senior ruling-party senator and a billionaire investment banker in the intensifying probe of a huge corruption network centered on state oil giant Petrobras.