Tag: mensalao

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 10:50 UTC

  Uruguay sends congratulations message to the Brazilian people and the election of Bolsonaro

  

  Finally on Monday the Uruguayan government sent an official message congratulating the Brazilian people for their civic display on Sunday which elected president Jair Bolsonaro. Likewise the Uruguayan government confirmed its willingness to continue working and developing the bilateral relation with its large neighbor and strongest economy in Latin America.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2017 - 08:00 UTC

  Brazil's new top prosecutor reshuffles corruption investigation team: Mensalao “veterans” take over

  

  Brazil's new top federal prosecutor on Tuesday reshuffled the team of investigators in charge of pursuing the biggest corruption probe yet conducted in Latin America's largest nation.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 05:02 UTC

  Lula da Silva's 'fund-raiser' Dirceu again involved: this time with Petrobras

  

  Brazilian police on Monday arrested former government minister Jose Dirceu, one of the most senior members of the ruling Workers' Party to be detained so far in a corruption scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 08:38 UTC

  Petrobras scandal ramifications getting closer to Lula da Silva

  

  One of Brazil's leading weekly magazines, Epoca, has revealed that former president Lula da Silva could be investigated over corruption allegations following on the imprisonment of the Odebrecht Group CEO, (Marcelo Odebrecht) which is one of the country's largest private corporations and employers, and for which Lula did much lobbying and sponsoring for public works projects in Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela and Ghana.

• Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 09:34 UTC

  Mujica's book rekindles Brazilian scandal involving Lula da Silva

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica has now denied alleged statements collected in a book about his life written by two journalists, that he personally presented last Sunday in Buenos Aires and in which there is a mention to former president Lula da Silva and the 'mensalao', one of Brazil's largest corruption scandals involving monthly payments to have bills passed by Congress.

• Friday, May 30th 2014 - 03:41 UTC

  Brazil's leading anti-corruption Justice announces he is stepping down

  

  Supreme Court Chief Justice Joaquim Barbosa, who with an iron hand presided over a well-known corruption trial that resulted in important politicians going to jail, will step down from the bench this year, Brazil's Senate leader said Thursday.

• Friday, November 29th 2013 - 23:41 UTC

  Brazil corruption money: “between 32 and 53bn dollars in 2013” says FIESP

  

  Corruption is not new in Brazil nor does it surprise public opinion but the magnitude of such extended practice is only coming to light with a recent study from the powerful manufacturing lobby, FIESP (Federation of Industries of Sao Paulo State) which states that the average annual cost of corruption in the country is between 1.38% and 2.3% of GDP, which the World Bank in 2012 estimated at 2.3 trillion dollars.

• Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 18:17 UTC

  Brazil politics fat cats to jail confirms the Supreme Court in landmark judgment

  

  In a landmark judgment, Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld more than a dozen jail terms handed down in a political corruption scandal which broke in 2005.

• Saturday, August 10th 2013 - 02:04 UTC

  Corruption allegations in crucial Sao Paulo city reach Brazil’s main opposition party

  

  After the mensalão case rocked Brazil’s ruling party, it seems it’s now the turn of the Social Democrats (PSDB), the main opposition party. The Attorney General’s office and the police are investigating the allegations against the PSDB and if its leaders received kickbacks from a scheme involving the maintenance of train and metro lines in Sao Paulo.

• Thursday, January 10th 2013 - 04:03 UTC

  Brazilian hacker publishes sensitive personal data on politicians convicted for corruption

  

  A hacker in Brazil has published sensitive personal data of politicians convicted during a major corruption trial known as the “Mensalao”. Jose Genoino, Jose Dirceu and Delubio Soares have had address, phone numbers, emails and other details exposed.