Tag: Odebrecht bribery case

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:43 UTC

  Lula da Silva will remain in Curitiba until pending appeals are filed and judged

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended a lower court decision to transfer imprisoned former President Lula da Silva from the southern city of Curitiba to a penitentiary in the state of Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil's largest private company, Odebrecht, files for bankruptcy; US$ 20bn in debts

  

  Scandal-ridden Brazil construction giant Odebrecht, which has admitted to spending nearly US$ 800 million to bribe officials across Latin America to win contracts, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, judicial sources said.

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

  Mexico announces a criminal probe into Brazil's Odebrecht corruption

  

  Mexico will launch a criminal probe into Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht SA within 60 days, Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said on Monday.

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Lula da Silva claims that Brazil is governed by “a gang of madmen”

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva on Friday said the country is governed by a “gang of madmen” in his first interview from prison, where he is serving an almost nine-year sentence.

• Thursday, April 18th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Ex Peruvian president Alan Garcia shoots himself in the head

  

  Former Peruvian President Alan García was reported to have died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head minutes before a warrant for his arrest was to be executed. Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez, 69, was president of Peru from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He also served in Congress.

• Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazil's Lower House speaker and supporter of the pensions' reform, under police investigation

  

  Brazilian police have accused Rodrigo Maia, Brazil’s powerful lower house speaker, and his father of receiving bribes totalling at least 1.4 million reais (US$ 361,869), a document on Friday showed. The federal police document was delivered to the Supreme Court, as part on an ongoing investigation into Maia.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2019 - 06:57 UTC

  Ex Peruvian president spends a night in California jail for drunkenness

  

  Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, who is facing extradition from the United States over corruption charges, was briefly jailed for public intoxication after getting drunk in a California restaurant, local police said on Monday.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Peruvian powerful leader Keiko Fujimori ordered to jail on corruption charges

  

  Former Peruvian first daughter Keiko Fujimori was ordered back to jail Wednesday in a case that has captured attention in a country reeling from a series of corruption scandals reaching into the highest echelons of power.

• 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.

• Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 07:18 UTC

  Odebrecht corruption in Argentina: all changed when ex president Kirchner died

  

  A leading manager of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht involved in corrupting government officials in virtually all Latin American countries revealed that millions of dollars in kickbacks were delivered in Argentina to pay for the natural gas pipelines network expansion contract.