Tag: João Vaccari Neto

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 23:27 UTC

  Market reacts negatively to Petrobras new CEO: too political and too close to Rousseff

  

  Shares in Brazil's oil giant Petrobras plunged Friday as banking executive Aldemir Bendine, who is seen as too close to President Dilma Rousseff's party, was named the scandal-hit firm's new chief executive.

• Friday, February 6th 2015 - 06:57 UTC

  Brazil ruling party's treasurer questioned on the Petrobras corruption probe

  

  Brazilian federal police said on Thursday they had started questioning João Vaccari Neto, the treasurer of the country's ruling Workers' Party, as a corruption probe focused on state-run oil company Petrobras widened to include political figures.