Tag: operation Car Wash

• Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 - 06:53 UTC

  Mastermind of Lula's corruption cases temporarily released from jail

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release from prison of Jose Dirceu, who was convicted of graft-related crimes after serving as cabinet chief of ex-president Lula da Silva. Dirceu has been detained since 2015 in connection to a vast corruption scheme known as Car Wash.

• Wednesday, April 26th 2017 - 12:15 UTC

  Bribes in Brazil “institutionalized” since the fifties, reveals Emilio Odebrecht

  

  The former CEO of the huge Brazilian builder at the center of the world's biggest corruption scandal spoke frankly about the billions in bribes and illegal financing that the Odebrecht company put into the pockets and campaign coffers of politicians and public officials.

• Monday, April 24th 2017 - 08:42 UTC

  Temer insists that the corruption scandal won't paralyze Brazil

  

  President Michel Temer insists that a growing corruption scandal in his government will not paralyze Brazil as it struggles to emerge from its deepest recession in history. “Brazil doesn’t stop,” he said in an interview broadcast on Spanish television TVE ahead of a visit Monday by Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. “So it won’t be corrupt acts that paralyze the country.”

• Friday, March 31st 2017 - 04:39 UTC

  Rousseff's “hangman” sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption

  

  A federal court sentenced Brazil’s former speaker of the Lower House, Eduardo Cunha, to more than 15 years in prison on Thursday for corruption, making him the highest-profile political conviction yet in the “Operation Car Wash” scandal. The former politician’s defense team said they would appeal the decision but Cunha will remain imprisoned pending appeal.

• Monday, February 13th 2017 - 10:59 UTC

  Panama Papers office raided as part of the Petrobras/Odebrecht investigation

  

  The offices of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak, were raided on 9 February as part of an ongoing investigation into Brazil's biggest corruption scandal, the so called Operation Carwash (“Lava Jato” in Portuguese) involving the state-run oil company Petrobras.

• Friday, February 3rd 2017 - 11:33 UTC

  Brazil's major corruption scandal has a new Justice who promises prudence and transparency

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court named a new justice on Thursday to oversee cases against politicians caught in a giant corruption probe after the previous judicial point man was killed in an airplane crash.

• Thursday, January 26th 2017 - 07:38 UTC

  Plane that crashed killing Brazil's top Justice did not suffer “obvious mechanical failure”

  

  The small plane carrying a Brazilian Supreme Court justice overseeing a political bribery investigation did not suffer any obvious mechanical failure when it crashed into a bay amid heavy rain and killed all five on board, investigators said this week.

• Monday, January 23rd 2017 - 19:01 UTC

  Temer has the delicate task of naming a successor of Justice Zavascki

  

  Brazil's president Michel Temer said that he would wait to name a replacement for the Supreme Court justice who died in a plane crash until after the court reassigns a major corruption case he was handling.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2016 - 10:57 UTC

  Constitutional clash in Brazil, Senate disobeys Supreme Court: countdown for Temer presidency?

  

  Brazil moved a step closer to a constitutional crisis on Tuesday as the head of the Senate refused to abide by a Supreme Court Justice ruling stripping him of his powerful post. A defiant Sen. Renan Calheiros told reporters he won’t recognize a decision handed down late Monday by a single high-court judge. The clash could mean the beginning of the countdown for president Michel Temer weak administration and his fiscal reforms program

• Friday, November 18th 2016 - 08:53 UTC

  Former governor of Rio do Janeiro arrested for allegedly embezzling public works funds

  

  The former governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro was arrested Thursday for allegedly embezzling funds intended for public works projects, authorities said. Sergio Cabral was apprehended at his home in Rio de Janeiro city's Leblon neighborhood just one day after another former governor of that same state, Anthony Garotinho, was detained on suspicion of attempted vote-rigging.