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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 07:27 UTC

Tag: Judge Sergio Moro

  • Friday, May 12th 2017 - 09:15 UTC

    Brazilian public opinion remains deeply divided on Lula: strong support but also highest rejection rate

    In recent polling, Lula sits atop surveys of potential candidates for the 2018 election but he also has the highest rejection rate, showing strong opposition

    Ex Brazilian President Lula da Silva's combative testimony before a federal judge this week did little to dismantle the graft case against him and improve his chances of securing a new term in office. Lula, a founder of the leftist Workers Party (PT) that controlled Brazil's presidency from 2003 until last year, can only run in next year's presidential election if he avoids a conviction that is upheld on appeal.

  • Thursday, May 11th 2017 - 11:29 UTC

    Lula was questioned for five hours and later called the corruption case “a farce”

    The closed hearing put Lula face-to-face with Judge Sergio Moro, a hero to many Brazilians for his relentless pursuit of powerful figures in Petrobras graft probe

    Brazil's former president Lula da Silva called the corruption trial threatening to end his storied career a “farce” during almost five hours of testimony on Wednesday. Lula is accused of receiving a seaside apartment as a kickback from the OAS construction company, and if found guilty could be barred from running for office and even jailed, destroying his hopes of coming back to power in the 2018 presidential elections.

  • Wednesday, May 10th 2017 - 06:12 UTC

    Pivotal moment for Brazil: Lula and Judge Moro meet for the first time in a courtroom

    Lula is one of Brazil's most popular president and the front-runner in next year's election: a former union leader who still whips up crowds with his fiery oratory

    When Brazil's former President Lula da Silva and Judge Sergio Moro meet for the first time in a courtroom on Wednesday, contrasts and stakes could hardly be greater. One is the country's most popular president ever and the front-runner in next year's election - a former union leader who still whips up crowds with his fiery and folksy oratory.

  • Tuesday, May 9th 2017 - 07:17 UTC

    Lula's five hurdles before he can ensure a comeback in the 2018 election

    Although Lula currently leads in opinion polls, his legal problems mean he has a steep path to climb.

    Lula da Silva, Brazil's hugely influential leftist president between 2003-2010, faces no fewer than five court cases, each of which could thwart his dream of a comeback in 2018. On Wednesday he is due to appear before Brazil's top anti-corruption judge, Sergio Moro, to face charges that he was given a luxury apartment as a bribe.

  • Monday, April 24th 2017 - 08:42 UTC

    Temer insists that the corruption scandal won't paralyze Brazil

    Interviewed on Spanish television TVE ahead of a visit by Spain’s PM Rajoy, Temer underlined that “so it won’t be corrupt acts that paralyze the country.”

    President Michel Temer insists that a growing corruption scandal in his government will not paralyze Brazil as it struggles to emerge from its deepest recession in history. “Brazil doesn’t stop,” he said in an interview broadcast on Spanish television TVE ahead of a visit Monday by Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. “So it won’t be corrupt acts that paralyze the country.”

  • Friday, March 31st 2017 - 04:39 UTC

    Rousseff's “hangman” sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

    The former Lower House speaker’s defense team said they would appeal the decision but Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.

    A federal court sentenced Brazil’s former speaker of the Lower House, Eduardo Cunha, to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for corruption, making him the highest-profile political conviction yet in the “Operation Car Wash” scandal. The former politician’s defense team said they would appeal the decision but Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.

  • Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 19:01 UTC

    Temer has the delicate task of naming a successor of Justice Zavascki

    Many Brazilians have said it would be unseemly for Temer to name the next rapporteur to the case because he himself might be implicated in the plea bargains

    Brazil's president Michel Temer said that he would wait to name a replacement for the Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash until after the court reassigns a major corruption case he was handling.

  • Friday, January 20th 2017 - 12:42 UTC

    Brazil in shock: Justice investigating country's major corruption dies in air crash

    “He was a good man and a source of pride for all Brazilians,” Temer said, who declared three days of national mourning in Brazil for the death of the Justice

    Brazil's President Michel Temer on Thursday evening made an official statement to mourn the death of Supreme Court judge Teori Zavascki, who was killed earlier in the day in a plane crash. Temer declared three days of national mourning in Brazil for the death of the Justice, who was in charge of the court's investigation into a wide-ranging corruption scandal.

  • Saturday, November 12th 2016 - 12:19 UTC

    Lula's claim of a “diabolic pact” derided by Brazil's attorney general

    Lula, who is set to stand trial in three separate corruption cases, said at an event Thursday in Sao Paulo, where he received the support of intellectuals and leaders of political, labor and social mo

    Brazil's attorney general on Friday offered a joking retort to former President Lula da Silva's remark that the corruption allegations he faces are due to a “diabolical pact” among different institutions, saying he is not a religious person. “What I can say is that I'm not religious,” Rodrigo Janot joked to reporters when asked about Lula's comments. Janot, who gave a press conference to review anti-corruption investigations this year, added that Lula was free to express his opinion.

  • Friday, October 21st 2016 - 18:17 UTC

    Brazilian prosecution after another can of worms, the national development bank, BNDES

    BNDES will audit each of 47 schemes to check they meet its financial standards. Among projects affected are a dam in Mozambique and Cuba's Port Mariel project

    Brazil’s national development bank has frozen $13.5bn of funds for 47 overseas projects, including those in Angola, Mozambique, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, as yet more corruption charges are brought against politicians and executives arising from the Lava Jato corruption probe.