Tag: Sergio Moro

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

  Lula tells BBC why he was jailed to prevent him from winning the presidential election

  

  Brazil's former president, Lula da Silva, says he was jailed to prevent him from winning the 2018 presidential election which saw far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro elected. In an exclusive interview with the BBC via letters from his cell, Lula said Judge Sergio Moro “did politics and not justice” when he sentenced him.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  “Car Wash” anti corruption team will work with Brazil's incoming Justice minister

  

  Brazil's incoming justice and security minister Sergio Moro announced on Tuesday he was recruiting part of his team from the massive “Car Wash” anti-corruption probe that snared former president Lula da Silva. Moro said he would be a “fool” not to work again with people he had worked with on the Car Wash investigation as they “have already proven their integrity and efficiency.”

• Monday, July 9th 2018 - 07:24 UTC

  Lula loses another legal battle: appeals court blocks his release from jail

  

  The chief justice of a Brazilian appeals court blocked another judge’s efforts to release imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday, in a legal battle over the country’s most popular politician ahead of an October election.

• Friday, April 27th 2018 - 12:24 UTC

  Brazil's Supreme Tribunal begins to address Lula's case on May 4th

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) is to vote on a motion starting May 4 that could potentially release ex-president Lula da Silva from prison, the court said. Lula's defense team hopes to overturn a decision by Sergio Moro, a federal judge and head of a key corruption investigation that determined he had to begin serving a 12-year sentence for accepting bribes.

• Thursday, April 12th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Sixty Brazilian members of Congress added Lula to their names

  

  More than 60 Brazilian members of congress from the opposition Worker's Party have formally changed their names. They have added the name 'Lula', after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was jailed last weekend.

• 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 - 07:28 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.

• Thursday, April 5th 2018 - 09:16 UTC

  Supreme Court rejects Lula's petition: must start prison term

  

  The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil (STF) decided to reject the judicial appeal filed by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to appeal while in freedom to a sentence for corruption that remains pending, so the former president should enter the prison and begin compliance of the sentence.