Brazilian and French authorities said Tuesday they uncovered an international corruption scheme aimed at buying votes in awarding the 2016 Olympics. This is the latest allegation to sully the legacy of the Rio Games, the first Olympics in South America.
Read moreFederal police searched the house of the president of the Brazilian Olympic committee on Tuesday and issued a warrant forcing him to testify in an investigation into bribery surrounding the awarding of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Read moreThe former general manager of a telecommunications company in Miami pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, admitting to a role in a bribery scheme aimed at locking down a contract with the state-owned telecommunications company in Haiti.
Read moreA congressional committee rejected a recommendation to try Brazil’s president for corruption, handing him a symbolic victory Thursday a day after a former president was convicted of graft.
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption and money laundering on Wednesday, the most high-profile conviction yet in a sweeping graft investigation that has jailed dozens of the Latin American country’s elite.
Read moreA U.S. appeals court agreed to partly decertify a class of shareholders accusing Brazilian oil giant Petrobras of hiding its bribery woes for years while selling $98 billion in stock.
Read moreA day after Brazil’s top prosecutor formally accused President Michel Temer of corruption in a scathing indictment, markets largely shrugged off the news Tuesday, a sign that the leader’s departure may not be imminent.
Read moreNorway’s prime minister warned Brazil’s president on Friday to curb deforestation in the Amazon or Norway will reduce its financial contribution to the project this year.
Read moreA former minister and ally of embattled President Michel Temer has been taken arrested.
The high-profile arrest comes Tuesday just hours before Brazil’s top electoral court begins the judgment phase in a trial that could result in Temer’s ouster.
Brazil’s president on Thursday cancelled an order to deploy the military to the streets of the capital after criticism that the move was excessive and merely an effort to hold onto power amid increasing calls for his resignation.
Read moreBrazil’s political crisis deepened sharply on Thursday with corruption allegations that threatened to topple the president, undermine reforms aimed at pulling the economy from recession and leave Latin America’s largest nation rudderless.
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A shy federal judge based in a provincial capital has become an unlikely celebrity in Brazil, where he is shaking up the nation’s power structure while overseeing what may be the largest corruption probe in Latin American history.
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The head of Brazil’s Supreme Court validated 77 plea bargains with officials from a construction giant targeted by a major corruption probe on Monday, a step that is likely to significantly widen investigations into top politicians and businessmen.
Read moreThe lead federal prosecutor in a massive corruption investigation roiling Brazil says that recent developments could double the size of the case, a staggering possibility given that the probe has ensnared many of the country’s elite, threatens to bring down President Michel Temer and is expanding to other Latin American countries.
Read moreBrazilian authorities on Friday were investigating a plane crash that killed the Supreme Court justice in charge of a major corruption case just weeks before he was scheduled to issue a ruling that could have revealed accusations against politicians in several Latin American countries.
Read moreA Supreme Court judge central to the huge corruption investigation roiling Brazil died in a plane crash Thursday, casting doubt over the future of a probe that has reached to the top of the political and economic elite, threatening the president himself.
Read moreThe 2015 Zika virus outbreak in Brazil has led many women to avoid pregnancy, suggesting the consequences of the epidemic extend beyond the range of birth defects associated with the virus.
Read moreSettling the largest foreign-bribery case in history, Brazilian companies Odebrecht and Braskem agreed Wednesday to pay at least $3.5 billion to authorities in the United States, Brazil, and Switzerland.
Read moreAccusing Boston Scientific and others of operating a “Prosthetic Mafia” in Brazil, a band of private insurers claims in a federal complaint that they are footing the bill for medically unnecessary device implants that are flooding the country.
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