Tag: Lula da Silva

• Thursday, June 21st 2018 - 12:02 UTC

  Ex president Lula faces new charges and must declare next 11 September

  

  Brazilian federal judge Sergio Moro has summoned ex president Lula da Silva for questioning next 11 September in a case related to reforms made in a camp house, Sitio Santa Barbara, in Atibaia, Sao Paulo state and which was frequently used by the Lula da Silva family.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  “Beware of little David”, Lula da Silva tells Brazil' team ahead of the match with Costa Rica

  

  Ex president Lula da Silva is serving a 12-year sentence for corruption in Curitiba, but as all Brazilians loves football, the national sport, and has been contracted as a commentator for the World's Cup in Russia.

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  Lula football commentator: “Messi must settle its debt with the Argentine people”

  

  Ex Brazilian president Lula da Silva might be in prison, but that has not stopped a Brazilian TV station from hiring him as a World Cup commentator. “This is not a joke,” said Jose Trajano, who hosts the daily program at the Sao Paulo-based VTV network on which Lula, who was in office from 2003 to 2010, is talking about the competition.

• Thursday, June 7th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  With Lula out of the presidential race, far-right candidate Bolsonaro is the clear frontrunner

  

  Far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is the clear frontrunner in Brazil’s election in October with up to 25% of voter support, followed by center-left populist Ciro Gomes with 12%, a new poll revealed on Tuesday.

• Thursday, May 24th 2018 - 07:03 UTC

  UN denies Lula's request for emergency action against his imprisonment

  

  The United Nations Human Rights Committee has denied a request by Brazil's ex-president Lula da Silva seeking emergency action against his imprisonment, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Lula, currently serving a 12-year sentence over corruption, asked the committee to impose so-called “interim measures” -- a step the UN panel only takes when there is evidence an accused person is facing grave, irreparable harm.

• Monday, May 21st 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Lula's political “handy man” Dirceu, starts 31-year prison sentence for corruption

  

  Jose Dirceu, former chief of staff under ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, surrendered last Friday to start a nearly 31-year prison sentence for corruption, officials said. Dirceu lost an appeal against his conviction for money laundering, corruption and membership of a criminal group, at a court in Porto Alegre on Thursday.

• Friday, May 18th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Lula lashes out at his “farce” imprisonment; Judge strips him of presidential privileges

  

  Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday lashed out against his imprisonment for corruption but the government rejected his claim to have been victim of a “farce” and a judge stripped him of presidential privileges. In a column in French newspaper Le Monde, Lula called his conviction and 12 year sentence for graft “a judicial farce” and said that presidential elections would be unfair without his participation.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 08:53 UTC

  Brazil reacts strongly to EU ex-leaders asking for Lula to run for office

  

  Brazil on Wednesday lashed out at a demand by former European leaders for disgraced ex-president Lula da Silva to be allowed to take part in elections this year. A group of former EU left leaning leaders, including French ex-president Francois Holland and Spanish former prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, called Lula's imprisonment for corruption “hurried” and said he should be “free to present himself before Brazilian voters.”

• Friday, May 11th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Despite legal setbacks, Lula reiterates his intention to run for a third presidential term

  

  Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reiterated on Thursday his intention to run for a third presidential term. Lula was jailed on April 7 and is serving a sentence of 12 years and one month for corruption and money laundering.

• Thursday, May 10th 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  Swedish PM to testify in corruption case involving sale of 36 fighter jets to Brazil

  

  Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has been summoned to testify next month as a witness in a Brazilian corruption case involving the purchase of fighter jets by Brazil, the Stockholm District Court said on Wednesday. Lofven will be asked in a Swedish court about his contacts with Brazil’s former presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva regarding the country’s purchase of Saab Gripen fighters in a deal struck five years ago.