Tag: Lula da Silva

• Tuesday, October 27th 2015 - 07:30 UTC

  Son of Lula da Silva's offices raided as part of investigation into tax fraud

  

  Brazilian police on Monday raided the offices of a company belonging to a son of former president Lula da Silva as part of an investigation into tax fraud. The raid was part of a broader operation involving about 100 agents who descended on offices in the cities of Sao Paulo, Piaui and Maranho armed with arrest warrants and orders to seize documents and accounting records.

• Saturday, October 17th 2015 - 06:43 UTC

  “Rousseff has broken the law and must step down”, says top Brazilian lawyer

  

  President Dilma Rousseff has broken the law and must step down so that Brazil can recover its legal bearings, the author of a key impeachment petition said. Helio Bicudo, a 93-year-old lawyer who was a high-ranking member of Rousseff's ruling Workers' Party, said in an interview that Brazil must return to “the rule of law.”

• Saturday, October 17th 2015 - 06:30 UTC

  Lula da Silva questioned for 90 minutes on allegations of influence peddling

  

  Brazilian ex-President Lula da Silva, who allegedly used his influence to aid a leading domestic engineering group after leaving office, voluntarily testified on Thursday before federal prosecutors during an hour and a half, his foundation said.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2015 - 06:28 UTC

  Former president says “no way Uruguay can escape the impact of the Brazilian crisis”

  

  Brazilian former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, (1995/2002) said that the serious economic situation faced by Brazil is very complex, will take time to overcome and most surely the impact will be felt in neighboring Uruguay, a country which must target other markets, other economic spaces.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2015 - 09:34 UTC

  Two close associates of Lula da Silva will face trial on the Petrobras scandal

  

  Two leading figures associated with Brazil's ruling Workers' Party will face trial over their alleged roles in the Petrobras graft scandal, authorities confirmed Tuesday.A judge has accepted to take on the case brought against Jose Dirceu, a former chief of staff under ex-president Lula da Silva (2003-2010), and who prosecutors say masterminded the bribes and embezzlement scheme skimming huge sums from the state oil giant.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 09:40 UTC

  Lula 'intimately' wants Dilma removed from office, says O Estado de Sao Paulo

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, “intimately celebrates” a possible political action that would remove president Dilma Rousseff from the Planalto Palace, according to one of the country's most respected and serious dailies, O Estado de Sao Paulo.

• Saturday, September 12th 2015 - 11:05 UTC

  Police want to question Lula da Silva on Petrobras; request to the Supreme Court

  

  Brazilian police have asked the Supreme Court for permission to question former president Lula da Silva, who they say may have benefited from the corruption scandal roiling state oil giant Petrobras.

• Friday, September 11th 2015 - 09:33 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez wants Argentina in BRICS and asks Lula da Silva to act as the lobbyist

  

  President Cristina Fernández called on Brazil’s former president Lula da Silva to become Argentina’s “ambassador” to help it join the group of emerging countries known as BRICS, acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Lula is currently campaigning in support of incumbent presidential candidate Daniel Scioli, and the so called 'Kirchner' model that 'transformed Argentina'.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 08:33 UTC

  Lula da Silva campaigns for Scioli and is full of praise for Cristina Fernandez and the 'K' model

  

  Brazil's popular but scandal-weary former leader Lula da Silva endorsed Argentina's ruling party presidential candidate on Wednesday, identifying Daniel Scioli's credentials with the political left, and hoping the current project “that began in 2003 is re-elected”. The former president was also full of praise for president Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 06:32 UTC

  Lula da Silva pictured with the Pope's Malvinas-dialogue poster

  

  Brazil's former president Lula da Silva was pictured holding Pope Francis' poster calling for dialogue in the 'Malvinas issue'.