Tag: mensalao

• Thursday, December 20th 2012 - 05:38 UTC

  Brazil to investigate corruption allegations involving Lula da Silva

  

  Brazil’s Attorney General said the country’s judiciary will investigate allegations that former President Lula da Silva took part in the cash-for-votes scheme that toppled several of his closest aides.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil high court convicts top aides of Lula da Silva for ‘Mensalao’ corruption scandal

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court convicted three top aides of former president Lula da Silva of graft related to a vote-buying scheme in Congress. Lula's ex-chief of staff Jose Dirceu was found guilty by six of the 10 judges in connection with the scheme that ran from 2002 to 2005 during the popular president's first term, a court spokesman said.

• Saturday, September 8th 2012 - 07:06 UTC

  Brazilians take to the streets on Independence Day to protest against corruption

  

  Thousands took to the streets of the Brazilian capital to march against corruption on the country’s Independence Day, along the same avenue where the main military parade took place on Friday.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 07:47 UTC

  Defendant says Lula da Silva was the ring leader of the Brazilian congress bribes scandal

  

  The defence of one of the main accused at Brazil’s “trial of the century” claimed at a hearing before the Supreme Tribunal (Supreme court) that former president Lula da Silva (2003/2010) was who ordered the bribes scheme to buy votes in Congress.