Tag: Lula da Silva

Monday, December 4th 2017 - 08:23 UTC
Green candidate Marina Silva will run for president in Brazil

Former Brazilian senator and environmental minister Marina Silva said on Sunday that she would seek her party’s nomination to run for president next year. Silva announced her plans at a meeting of her Sustainability Network Party, or REDE, which would officially nominate her at its national convention in April.
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.
Monday, October 30th 2017 - 07:17 UTC
Lula and former military officer, main presidential candidates in 2018, shows Ibope poll

Brazilian Former Lula da Silva and right-wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro would make it to a second round of voting in the 2018 presidential elections if they were held on Sunday, an Ibope poll showed.
Tuesday, October 17th 2017 - 12:16 UTC
Federal audit freezes Rousseff and Gabrielli assets over losses in refinery purchase

Brazil's federal audit court ordered a freeze of former President Dilma Rousseff's assets as well as those of José Sérgio Gabrielli, ex-head of state-run oil company Petrobras, over a US$580 million loss in the 2006 purchase of a Texas refinery.
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.
Friday, September 8th 2017 - 09:09 UTC
End of the line: ex minister and confident claims Lula da Silva accepted US$ 100 million from Odebrecht

A former finance minister and close confidant of Brazil’s Lula da Silva accused the ex-president of receiving bribes from contractor Odebrecht, adding to a list of corruption accusations that threaten Lula’s ability to run for president in 2018.
Thursday, September 7th 2017 - 08:11 UTC
Top prosecutor accuses Lula and Dilma of forming a criminal organization

Brazil’s top prosecutor on Tuesday charged former Presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff along with fellow Workers Party members with forming a criminal organization, the latest accusations in Brazil’s sprawling corruption scandal
Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 02:16 UTC
Prosecution triple budget to combat corruption in Brazil

Brazil’s Attorney General’s office announced on Tuesday that it has tripled its 2018 budget for the investigation into a sprawling corruption scandal that has engulfed political and business leaders across Latin America.