Brazil’s Corruption Scandal Spreads Across South America
The fallout from a massive bribery scandal that helped to bring down a Brazilian president is spreading across Latin America, threatening to engulf leaders from Panama to Peru.
The fallout from a massive bribery scandal that helped to bring down a Brazilian president is spreading across Latin America, threatening to engulf leaders from Panama to Peru.
Brazilian prosecutors have filed corruption charges against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his wife and six others in the sprawling Petrobras kickback scandal, dealing a big blow to the popular leader’s chances of a comeback.
A police helicopter has crashed in Rio de Janeiro, killing four officers after a day of intense firefights between law enforcement and suspected criminals in the slum known as City of God.
Brazilian prosecutors indicted former billionaire Eike Batista and the former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, on corruption charges involving $16.5 million in bribes.
Allegations that Brazil’s president has been caught on tape endorsing bribe payments shook the country’s financial markets on Thursday, sending shares and the Brazilian currency sharply lower amid investor fears that his government could collapse.
SÃO PAULO—Brazil’s Federal Police are trying to arrest Brazilian businessman Eike Batista Thursday after a local judge issued a warrant in relation to a wide-ranging corruption scandal involving government contracts.
The former billionaire Eike Batista has left the Bangu prison in Rio on house arrest. Federal Judge Gilmar Mendes met the defendant’s request over the weekend.
A drug lord who had plastic surgery to change his appearance has been captured in Brazil after three decades on the run.
Detroit, MI – A woman who was caught on camera opening fire on a driver at a gas station on Detroit’s west side is in custody, police said. Police had been looking for her after the shooting early Sunday morning at the Mobil station at 15510 Fenkell.
Two passengers duked it out in a free-for-all brawl aboard a Japanese airplane, ending in the arrest of a boozed-up American traveler, according to reports.