The Brazilian former president Lula da Silva may temporarily leave the prison to attend the funeral of his grandson. The 7-year-old boy is according to Brazilian media at a...
The Supreme Court of Brazil has decided Wednesday to temporarily release the detained former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. That would enable Lula to change the body of...
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gets out of the race for the presidency, reported sources around the candidate. For the elections of next month, his running-mate Fernando Hadad is now the most important candidate of the socialist PT.
The Brazilian former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has declared himself to the police. He is taken to a cell in the city of Curitiba in the south of Brazil.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has passed the deadline to report to the Brazilian police. According to the media, the former president is negotiating about this.
The former boss of the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras and ex-topman of Banco do Brasil, Aldemir Bendine, has been arrested in a corruption investigation. Brazilian media reported that it was arrested by the federal police in Sorocaba in the state of São Paulo. Bendine is suspected of having taken over from one of the largest construction companies in the world, the Brazilian company Odebrecht.
The Public Prosecutor of Brazil wants former president Luiz Inácio da Silva behind the bars. The former head of state and six other suspects have to be sentenced to imprisonment for corruption and laundering, according to the recommendations of the investigators to the judges in charge, according to the state press agency Agência Brasil.
