Tag: Fernando Martins

• Monday, May 3rd 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Bolsonaro thanks Putin for release of footballer's driver wrongly arrested for drug trafficking

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday thanked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the release of Robson Oliveira, the driver of former Spartak Moscow footballer Fernando Martins, who was arrested upon arrival for carrying a banned substance.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Brazil's ex richest man receives additional sentence for inside trading

  

  Eike Batista, formerly Brazil’s richest man, was sentenced to an additional eight years and seven months of prison time this week for insider trading. Batista, 62, had already been convicted for paying US$ 16.6m to get government contracts as part of a sprawling corruption probe known as Carwash and sentenced to 30 years, which he is serving under house arrest.