Tag: Teori Zavascki

• 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.

• Friday, January 20th 2017 - 12:42 UTC

  Brazil in shock: Justice investigating country's major corruption dies in air crash

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer on Thursday evening made an official statement to mourn the death of Supreme Court judge Teori Zavascki, who was killed earlier in the day in a plane crash. Temer declared three days of national mourning in Brazil for the death of the Justice, who was in charge of the court's investigation into a wide-ranging corruption scandal.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2016 - 03:01 UTC

  Dilma and Lula face investigation for justice obstruction, reports GloboNews

  

  Brazilian Federal Supreme Court justice has authorized the opening of an investigation into President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Lula da Silva for allegedly working to obstruct the course of a sweeping corruption probe, GloboNews news channel said on Tuesday.

• Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 07:11 UTC

  Supreme Court lets three powerful Temer allies off the hook

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court has rejected a request by the nation’s Attorney General to arrest three senior members of acting President Michel Temer’s party in connection with the massive corruption investigation focused on Petrobras.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2015 - 07:11 UTC

  Brazilian Lower house speaker closer to losing his job than embattled Rousseff

  

  Brazilian federal police searched the home of lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha on Tuesday as part of a series of anti-graft raids against senior political figures, dealing a blow to the man who opened President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment proceedings.