Tag: Lava Jato

• Monday, June 10th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil’s Lava Jato: Recordings questioned impartiality from Sergio Moro and prosecutors in sentencing Lula da Silva

  

  The Intercept Brazil investigation media published private conversations between public agents who participated in the Lava Jato operation in Brazil and questioned the impartiality of the investigation, which led to the imprisonment of former President Lula da Silva.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Corruption investigation: Court allows investigation of Bolsonaro son's banking records

  

  A Brazilian court will allow investigators to examine the banking records of President Jair Bolsonaro's senator son and his former driver in a money-laundering investigation.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Brazilian ex president Temer transferred to new police station in Sao Paulo

  

  Former Brazilian President Michel Temer has been transferred to a new police station in Sao Paulo for detention while he is investigated in several corruption cases. Temer was moved to the shock police command on Monday, days after he was ordered back to jail during the investigation.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Former Brazilian president Temer ordered to return to jail

  

  Former President Michel Temer was ordered to return to jail by a federal judge on Wednesday while he is investigated in several cases of alleged corruption. Temer’s lawyer, Eduardo Carnelos, told Globo Television that he could only “lament” the court’s decision. He said Temer would have to present himself to authorities Thursday.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Brazilian ex president Lula could be partially free by next September

  

  Brazil's jailed former leftist president, Lula da Silva, could gain partial freedom within five months following a court decision on Tuesday to reduce his sentence in one of two corruption convictions.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:27 UTC

  Brazil's Justice: Michel Temer hit with new corruption charges

  

  Brazil's former president Michel Temer was hit with corruption charges on Friday, just a day after being charged in a separate graft case, the federal prosecutors office in Rio de Janeiro said.

• Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 14:41 UTC

  Brazil: Former President Michel Temer is arrested

  

  Former Brazilian President Michel Temer was arrested on Thursday on corruption charges, a dramatic development in a sprawling corruption probe that has roiled Brazil has showed no sign of slowing.

• Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 10:03 UTC

  Global commodity trading firms investigated in Switzerland and by the FBI

  

  Pressure is growing on global commodity trading firms with strong ties to Switzerland for their alleged involvement in the “Car Wash” corruption scandal in Brazil. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating two Vitol executives in the Americas, according to Reuters news agency.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 20:45 UTC

  Brazil's First lady will be examined for suspicious transaction

  

  Michelle Bolsonaro, first lady of Brazil, will be subjected to an examination of the Brazilian treasury within an investigation into a series of suspicious transactions involving the president's eldest son, Valor newspaper reported Friday.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 09:17 UTC

  Former minister and advisor confirms payments of bribes in hand to Lula da Silva

  

  Antonio Palocci, who was minister during the governments of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, affirmed that he gave the former president, in “several opportunities”, cash proceeds of bribes from the construction companies Odebrecht and Andrade Gutierrez, according to the Globo Group.