Tag: Geddel Vieira Lima

• Wednesday, February 7th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

  Another Temer minister appointment on the cliff

  

  With Brazil’s unpopular government battling to hold together a congressional coalition, President Michel Temer has been unlucky with his pick of cabinet ministers. Seven quit or were fired in his first year in office, four of them following allegations of wrongdoing. Among them, Geddel Vieira Lima, who was eventually arrested after police identified his fingerprints in an apartment filled with US$16 million in cash.

• Wednesday, December 6th 2017 - 09:56 UTC

  Several members of Temer's party charged with money laundering and criminal association

  

  Brazil’s prosecutor general officially presented money laundering and criminal association charges against six people, including a former federal minister and a congressman, Brazilian media reported on Monday evening.

• Wednesday, July 5th 2017 - 08:29 UTC

  Close ally of President Temer arrested on charges of corruption in state bank

  

  Brazilian police have arrested a close ally of President Michel Temer as part of a corruption investigation into a government-controlled bank. Geddel Vieira Lima, a former cabinet minister, had been in charge of Temer's relations with Congress.

• Tuesday, July 4th 2017 - 02:25 UTC

  Former Temer aide arrested for obstructing corruption investigation

  

  Geddel Vieira Lima, a former Secretary of Government of President Michel Temer's, was placed under preventive arrest on Monday over a loan that state-owned bank Caixa Econômica Federal handed over to meat, finance and real estate firms between 2011 and 2013, it was announced.