Tag: Odebrecht bribery case

• Tuesday, May 1st 2018 - 07:09 UTC

  Lula da Silva and PT chief Hoffmann hit with fresh corruption charges

  

  Imprisoned former Brazilian President Lula da Silva, along with the current leader of the Workers Party he founded, was hit on Monday with fresh corruption charges by federal prosecutors.

• Tuesday, December 19th 2017 - 11:59 UTC

  Odebrecht family leaders will step down from the scandal plagued conglomerate

  

  Emílio Odebrecht will resign as chairman of the board of the scandal-plagued Brazilian engineering conglomerate Odebrecht SA in the first half of next year, newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported. Emilio Odebrecht is one of 77 executives of the engineering conglomerate to sign a plea deal.

• Tuesday, December 12th 2017 - 08:13 UTC

  Peruvian president admits working for Odebrecht, as financial advisor or irrigation project

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski acknowledged that he worked as a financial adviser for an irrigation project owned by the Brazilian builder Odebrecht, contradicting his previous denials of having any links to the company. Odebrecht is at the center of Latin America’s biggest graft scandal and has admitted to paying about US$ 30 million in bribes to secure contracts in Peru over a decade.

• Tuesday, October 24th 2017 - 22:50 UTC

  Mexican government struck by Odebrecht's bribe money

  

  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto faces a tough choice on whether to pursue a graft probe involving a prominent ally and Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht.

• 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, August 24th 2017 - 10:07 UTC

  Venezuela ousted chief prosecutor says she has evidence of Maduro and allies corruption

  

  Venezuela's recently ousted chief prosecutor accused President Nicolas Maduro and several allies on Wednesday of participating in acts of corruption, saying she would turn over proof that would help other countries prosecute. Venezuela's government quickly fired back, accusing Luisa Ortega Diaz of “grave moral and ethical infractions.”

• Wednesday, August 2nd 2017 - 07:12 UTC

  To save or not to save Temer, Brazilian lawmakers' challenge in an televised live vote on a bribery charge

  

  August has been a devastating month for Brazilian presidents, 31 days in which they have been impeached or resigned. One even committed suicide, Getulio Vargas in 1954, and for Michel Temer's own predecessor, ex president Dilma Rousseff, it was her demise when she was removed last Aug. 31 for breaking fiscal rules in her management of the budget.

• Saturday, July 22nd 2017 - 12:10 UTC

  International legal cooperation has been essential in combating corruption admits Brazilian Prosecutor General

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s conviction on corruption charges is not a political statement, but an enforcement of the law demonstrative of Brazil’s commitment to combat corruption at the highest levels of society, Brazilian Prosecutor-General Rodrigo Janot said at the Atlantic Council this week.

• Wednesday, July 12th 2017 - 20:25 UTC

  Prosecutor is seeking jail for ex Peruvian president and wife charged with Odebrecht bribe

  

  A prosecutor in Peru is seeking up to 18 months in jail for former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia to keep them from fleeing the country while money laundering charges are prepared against them, according to a request made public on Tuesday.