Tag: operation Car Wash

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Paraguay will have a woman president for the first time in history

  

  Paraguay will have a woman president for the first time in its history, at least temporarily, after outgoing leader Horacio Cartes decided to step down ahead of schedule. Vice-President Alicia Pucheta, 68, will complete Cartes' mandate after he resigned to become a senator.

• Friday, May 4th 2018 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazilian Agriculture minister formally accused of 2009 bribery scheme

  

  Brazilian prosecutors filed charges against the country’s Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi on Wednesday, accusing him of orchestrating a bribery scheme in 2009 when he was governor of Mato Grosso state. Prosecutor General Raquel Dodge filed charges at the Supreme Court, according to a written statement from the federal prosecutor’s office.

• Friday, May 4th 2018 - 08:09 UTC

  Massive raid in Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay after money laundering ring suspected of moving US$ 1.6bn

  

  Brazilian investigators conducted one of their largest operations against graft ever on Thursday, targeting a money laundering ring linked to powerful politicians and businessmen that moved some US$1.6 billion through offshore accounts in 52 countries.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Some 15 Brazilian presidential hopefuls have 160 cases in court, according to Folha de Sao Paulo

  

  At least 15 of the 20 candidates who might run for president of Brazil in the October elections are targeted in more than 160 cases in courts throughout the country. Cases range from investigations in the Lava Jato operation to traffic offenses, and while in some cases would-be candidates are still only under investigation, in others they are either accused, or defendants, or have been sentenced – one of them was even arrested: former president Lula da Silva (PT), who is currently leading the poles.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazilian court turns down Lula da Silva's latest appeal

  

  A Brazilian court on Wednesday turned down ex-president Lula da Silva's latest appeal against his 12-year sentence for corruption, seemingly putting his bid for a political comeback even farther out of reach. The court in Porto Alegre tweeted that it had unanimously turned down the appeal, which was of a technical nature and, even if successful, would not have changed Lula's guilty verdict.

• Wednesday, April 11th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Brazil Supreme Court delays considering change to a law that could release jailed Lula

  

  A Justice on Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a delay until next week of a debate on changing a law that could, if passed, lead to the imminent release of recently jailed ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

• Saturday, April 7th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Lula negotiating his surrender following a Saturday mass for his deceased wife

  

  Ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's polarizing election frontrunner and leftist icon, was negotiating his surrender after dramatically skipping a first deadline Friday to start his 12-year prison sentence for corruption.

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 16:23 UTC

  Lula resists arrest deadline waiting for last minute habeas corpus filed at an appeals court

  

  Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told Folha de Sao Paulo early Friday that he has decided not to turn himself at the Federal Police in Curitiba where he must serve a 12-year prison sentence for corruption, as ordered by judge Sergio Moro.

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Lula expected to continue campaigning from jail as the Workers Party readies a Plan B and option candidate

  

  Even when Brazilian ex president Lula da Silva was described as facing Judge Sergio Moro's Friday jailing decision calmly, the big question now is what follows for the presidential candidate and the Workers Party chances ahead of the coming October presidential election.

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 07:28 UTC

  Lula has until Friday afternoon to start a prison sentence for corruption

  

  Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, front runner in Brazil’s October presidential elections, was given 24 hours on Thursday to surrender to police and start a 12-year prison sentence for corruption. The timing of the order from Judge Sergio Moro, head of Brazil’s huge “Car Wash” anti-graft probe, took Lula’s lawyers by complete surprise. They had been expecting to use legal maneuvers to delay the start of prison at least until next week.