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Tag: Henrique Eduardo Alves

  • Friday, June 17th 2016 - 06:52 UTC

    Petrobras “ministerial bowling” in Brazil: head of Tourism knocked out

    Tourism Minister Henrique Alves was one of two dozen officials named in plea bargain testimony by a former Petrobras executive

    Brazil's tourism minister resigned on Thursday, less than two months before the country hosts the Olympics, as the government of interim President Michel Temer lost its third minister in a month to a sweeping graft probe of state oil company Petrobras.

  • Tuesday, June 7th 2016 - 08:46 UTC

    Temer's Tourism minister might have to 'advance holidays' because of Petrobras

    The messages supposedly show Alves offering political support to construction firm OAS Engenharia allegedly in exchange for campaign donations

    Brazil's prosecutor general found evidence linking the tourism minister of interim President Michel Temer to the corruption scheme at Petrobras, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported on Monday. Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot included intercepted phone messages in a request to the Supreme Court for a formal investigation of Tourism Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves, Folha reported in publishing excerpts of the messages.