Synopsis:A recent Brazil Federal Court decision has set a landmark in the $32 billion claim against Samarco Mineração, Vale, and BHP Brasil. The court mandated
Canadian mining company Belo Sun tries to establish a gold mine in an area that had been allocated for land reform. The company received land from INCRA under the Bolsonaro administration, but the Public Defender’s Office and the Federal Court of Accounts challenge the operation
Brazil s Federal Court of Auditors (TCU) Friday said former President Jair Bolsonaro kept for himself some 17 gifts of “high commercial value” which should have been handed over to the country s coffers. The TCU also underlined that among the more than 9,000 presents received by the former head of state, 128 of them were not of a “personal” nature and belong in the public collection.
When the reported Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov was arrested in Brazil, Russia’s authorities suddenly remembered he’d been wanted all along – for smuggling heroin in 2012.