Tag: Judge Sergio Moro

• Thursday, January 25th 2018 - 07:05 UTC

  Brazil shares surge as Lula's corruption conviction is confirmed ruling him out his presidential bid

  

  Brazilian assets soared, with the Bovespa surging above 83,000 for the first time ever, and the currency Real surging through 3.20 after three judges in a local appeals court upheld a conviction for corruption imposed last July on ex-President Lula da Silva.

• Wednesday, January 24th 2018 - 07:31 UTC

  Lula supporters will launch his presidential candidacy whatever a court decides on the bribe conviction

  

  Brazilian politicians, voters and investors will find out this Wednesday whether an appeals court will allow the country’s popular leader, Lula da Silva, to run for president this year after being found guilty of accepting a bribe.

• Friday, November 3rd 2017 - 07:08 UTC

  Brazilian electorate divided on Lula: half want him as president and the other half in jail

  

  Half of Brazilians want former President Lula da Silva to win next year's election and return to the office he occupied between 2003 and 2010. The other half wants him in prison for a corruption conviction.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 07:33 UTC

  Judge Moro says Petrobras corruption probe is nearing an end

  

  The judge overseeing a sprawling corruption probe into billions of dollars in kickbacks to Brazilian politicians and officials said Monday that the investigation is nearing an end. Judge Sergio Moro didn't set a timeline for when the “Car Wash” probe might wrap up. However, he said he is personally “a bit tired” of the work and believes it is in its final phases.

• Thursday, September 28th 2017 - 05:04 UTC

  Ex minister Palocci 's KO jab to Lula and Rousseff's defense

  

  Former Minister, Antonio Palocci, has sent a letter to the president of the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT), senator Gleisi Hoffmann (PR), requesting to step down from the party founded in the eighties by ex president Lula da Silva.

• Thursday, September 14th 2017 - 07:06 UTC

  Lula da Silva questions impartiality of Judge Sergio Moro: “this is a witch hunt”

  

  Former President Lula da Silva told a Brazilian court on Wednesday that the corruption charges against him stem from a witch hunt and questioned the impartiality of the judge. Lula's deposition in Curitiba was the second time he faced off with Judge Sergio Moro, who oversees Brazil's sprawling investigation into bribes to politicians in return for favors to companies.

• Thursday, August 3rd 2017 - 21:45 UTC

  Brazil's Judge Moro claims there is lack of interest from the political establishment to fight corruption

  

  Brazilian federal judge Sergio Moro, the man behind Brazil's largest ever corruption investigation, said there is still lack of interest from the country's political establishment to fight corruption, despite the political and economic crisis the practice sent the country into.

• Thursday, July 20th 2017 - 07:18 UTC

  Ex Brazilian president assets and bank accounts frozen

  

  The Brazilian central bank has frozen four bank accounts belonging to ex-President Lula da Silva due to his recent conviction on corruption charges, the federal judge who heard his case said on Wednesday.

• Friday, July 14th 2017 - 08:00 UTC

  Lula defies conviction and formally launches his presidential candidacy

  

  The former Brazilian president Lula da Silva responded defiantly to his conviction on corruption charges by formally launching his candidacy for next year’s presidential election.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2017 - 18:27 UTC

  Brazil: Former President Lula da Silva found guilty of corruption

  

  Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from childhood poverty to become a two-term president, was convicted on corruption charges on Wednesday in the first of five graft trials he faces.He was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. He will remain free on appeal.