India-Brazil Chamber of Commerce on Senate Radar as CovaxinGate Probe Goes Beyond Brazil
The parliamentary inquiry panel seeks details of Madison Biotechâs partners, which includes Dr Krishna Ella of Bharat Biotech, and its assets.
Elson Gomes Junior, the honorary president of the chamber who also serves at India s honorary consul in Belo Horizonte, welcoming Bharat Biotech s co-founder Suchitra Ella on the advisory board of IBCC on March 8, 2021. Photo: Facebook/IBCC
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Sao Paulo:Â Just before going on a two-week break, starting on Saturday, the Brazilian parliamentary commission of inquiry (CPI) investigating the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by the Brazilian government opened new lines of probe into the Covaxin contract. With the scandal around Bharat Biotechâs vaccine getting bigger, it was revealed this week that a transaction of one million Brazilian reals ($2,00,000) by the Indian firmâs representative to the India-Brazil Chamber of Comm
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was thrust back into Brazil’s political scene after a judge tossed out criminal convictions against the leftist icon, adding to investor concerns that the country’s reform agenda may be derailed by early campaigning for the 2022 presidential election.
The federal court in the southern city of Curitiba had no jurisdiction over cases against the former president, including ones that led to sentences for bribery, Justice Edson Fachin wrote in a statement on Monday. The news sent stocks and the currency cratering, deepening some of the worst performances this year at a time congress discusses approving extra emergency spending to alleviate a renewed coronavirus outbreak.