Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2008

PF says that if Protógenes desisitir of course, can be in the Satiagraha

The Federal Police spread in this Thursday (17) passages of the carving done during the meeting in which there was decided the exit of the delegate Protógenes Queiroz of the Operation Satiagaha. The passages were selected by the PF because the meeting of three hours that happened in the thirst of the PF of Sao Paulo in the beginning of the week would have treated as secret subjects.

The TV Globo had access to a part of the carving in which the delegate proposes to accumulate the driving of the inquiry with the course in the academy of police officer, of Monday on Saturday in full time.

Protógenes would take the testimonies in every weekend. According to the PF the course is of integral dedication, and therefore there was no agreement. The PF affirms that if the delegate to give up of the course, he will be able to continue in the inquiry.

Source: G1

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Justice revokes prison of three soldiers of the Providence

The protective custody of three of 11 soldiers wrapped in the death of three young persons of the Hill of the Providence, in the Zone Portuária of the Rio, it was revoked in this Wednesday (9) by the titular judge of the 7th Federal Criminal Stick, Marcello Ferreira Granado. In accordance with the decision, the soldier Eduardo Pereira of Olive tree and sergeant Bruno Eduardo de Fátima would not have participated of the detention of the victims, and the end Samuel de Souza Oliveira would not have contributed to the episode of relevant form.

The magistrate ended that there would no be fear of which they were threatening you witness residents of the town. In the decision, the judge also alleged that, at other moments of the event, the three remained in situation of hierarchical obedience, without determinative participation in the ending of the episode.

Source: G1

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Dantas, Pitta and Nahas will stay in separate cells, it informs PF

The Federal Police is going to maintain three names most known between the prisoners of the Operation Satiagraha - the banker Daniel Dantas, the ex-mayor of Sao Paulo Celso Pitta and the businessman Naji Nahas - in cells separated in the thirst of the PF of Sao Paulo, it informed the advisory body of press of the organ.

The three are between 17 imprisoned persons in the operation that it investigates I divert of public allowances and financial crimes. The operation wrapped around 300 agents of the Federal Police, in the Rio of January and in Sao Paulo.

Source: G1

Monday, July 7, 2008

Without agreement, officials of the Mail maintain strike

The officials of the Mail decided, in this Monday (7), after an audience of conciliation in the Superior Court of the Work (TST), in Brasilia, to maintain the strike initiated into last week. Since the strike began, 28 million objects are kept in the deposits of the Mail, in accordance with the swinging spread by the enterprise, in Friday (4). The daily volume, in normal days, is 33 million orders and correspondências.

The president of the TST, of I Crush Minister Rider Nogueira, it proposed, during the audience of conciliation, that the officials of the Mail were shutting in the strike, begun in 1st of July. If the strikers do that, he pledged himself to mediate the negotiation between the workers and the state company. The proposal of the Minister will be taken to the assemblies of the trade unions in all Brazil, predicted to take place still in this Monday, from 16h.

The secretary-general of the National Federation of the Workers in Enterprises of Mail, Telegraphs and Similar (Fentect), Manoel Cantoara, said to believe, meantime, that the officials must not accept the proposal of the Minister. " The enterprise does not want to negotiate anything. "

The executive chief executive of Management of Persons of the Mail, Alberto de Mello, for his time, says that the state company will not manage to pay attention to the claims of the strikers. " It is impracticable ", it guarantees. Since the strike began, Mello appreciates that 28 million orders stopped being handed already in all Brazil.

Source: G1

Friday, June 13, 2008

After theft, Pinacoteca Station will be open this Friday

The Pinacoteca Station, in central Sao Paulo, vai operate normally between 10am and 18h this Friday (13), after the theft of four works occurred on the morning of Thursday (12). According to the advisory's press Pinacoteca, only the second floor of the museum, where the pieces were stolen, will be closed to visitors. The site will be available only for forensic science, which investigates the case.

The robbery occurred around 12:30 on Thursday (12). After that time, the building was closed. Armed, the criminals took on the oil card Di Cavalcanti "Women in the Window" (1926), two pictures of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, "The painter and his model" (1963) and "Minotaur, drinkers and women" (1933) , And guache on a card of naturalized Brazilian painter Lasar Segall, "Young" (1919). Together, the works were valued at $ 1 million.

Atendentes and security of the museum will start this Friday to help the police in identifying the thieves of the four valuable works of the acquis of the Foundation Nemirovsky. According to director of the Department of Investigations on Organised Crime (Deic), delegate Abou Youssef Chahin, officials of the museum will examine the database of criminals and the police to compare the two pictures has already spoken testimony prepared from them.

The identification would be made primarily with the help of photographs. "Witnesses will also look at the database of photographs of Deic (to make the recognition)," said the officer Chahin.

In the coming days, the researchers will also attend the recordings of the cameras of the days preceding the crime to try to confirm whether any of the thieves was the Pinacoteca do the recognition of the place. "There may be a suspicion (about possible gone before). But we have to confirm with the films. I can not pass suspicious, because people are similar, that's the truth," explained the director of Deic.

Source: G1

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

'Slight slowdown in GDP was desirable', says Mantega

The Minister of Finance, Guido Mantega, said this Tuesday (10) that a "slight slowdown" of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of this year, as detected by the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), was " desirable "for which there was a" convergence "between supply and demand for products and services. For all this year, the expectation is that the minister's GDP grows 5%, against 5.4% increase recorded in 2007.

The numbers of IBGE show that the GDP rose 5.8% in the first quarter of this year, against 6.2% in the last three months of 2007. "We play a little in boiling water. In the last quarter of last year, demand for products and services, around 8.6%, was very heated," said Mantega. He recalled that the GDP figures released this Tuesday show a lower growth of demand, of 6.6% as against the last three months of last year.

Source: G1

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Outside the prison, Sonia Hernandes participates in the meeting Renascer

The bispa Sonia Hernandes, founder of Renascer in Christ Apostolic Church next to the husband Estevam Hernandes, participates in the late afternoon of Saturday (7), by satellite transmission, from his first encounter with believers of the church after leaving the prison in the United States . Presa provided on January 21, she was released this morning from a prison in Florida.

Called the "Supper the officers", the meeting this Saturday happens in Ibirapuera Park since the 17h. Directed month, the event usually gather around 10 thousand deacons, presbíteros, pastors and bishops of Renascer, according to the organization. The reappearance of bispa occurred at 18h. When his face appeared in telão, it was ovacionada by the faithful.

"How I love you. How I love this church. What you are missing. How best to be proven and approved," said Sonia in his first speech in freedom. "Today I know what is to be in one place and can not preach. The Holy Spirit speaks for you," complemented.

Source: G1

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Avenida May 23 remains blocked three hours after accident

The driver who passed along Avenida May 23 around the 15h this Thursday (5) was congestion in both directions of the track which is part of the so-called Northern Corridor south of Sao Paulo.

The tipping a truck at the time of the Viaduct Marcondes General Salgado, near the Ibirapuera Park, which occurred around the 12h blocked the center of the track direction, causing slow both in order blocked as towards South Zone

Around the 15h, the CET was informed that winch on the spot for the withdrawal of tombado truck, but had no prediction for the release of the track. In order Santana, the queues were four kilometers in time, between the viaducts John Julian Aguiar and Euclides da Costa Figueiredo. Already towards South Zone, the length was 3.9 km, between Euclid and viaducts Jaceguai Figueiredo.

Source: G1

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Lula wants to convince the partner countries that ethanol is viable

The President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said here Sunday (1), in Rome, that the main objective of Brazil in the Conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Food Security, Climate Change and Bioenergy, which begins Tuesday Thursday (3) in the Italian capital, is to convince international partners that the Brazilian ethanol no threat to food production.

According to the BBC, "the president said the international campaign in favour of the government of Brazilian ethanol is" a necessary war "for Brazil. According to him, NGOs, farmers and European automotive industry in Europe are among those who campaign against ethanol.

"It is not the ethanol that makes up the price of food, because Brazil, which produces more biofuels, also produces more food," he said.

According to Lula, the conference will be an opportunity to give Brazil the sequence to the debate on alternative fuels for the next decades.

"We are convinced that the world can reluctant, but vai have to take responsibility to use other fuels," said the president "Agency Brazil", in an interview at the Embassy of Brazil.

Lula arrived on Saturday (31) to the city to attend the conference. In his speech at the opening ceremony, the president will make a defence of biofuels, highlighted by some countries as one of the villains in the high prices of food.

In this interview Sunday, the president also said that Brazil has presented alternative consistent and that biofuels and ethanol can be "a great chance of African territory." He reiterated that the climate in Africa is very similar to the Central West and so the Brazilian government intends to transfer technology for the production of these fuels in countries of the continent.

The president also again criticized agricultural subsidies in rich countries, which create obstacles for exports of Brazilian products.

Lula also said that vai talk with the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, to convene a meeting on the speculation on oil prices. About Amazon, said that does not allow international criticism concerning the preservation of forests, citing Europe, which has only 0.3% of its original forest.

Source: G1

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Police learns suitcases with $ 7 million in Amazonas

Federal Police found seven bags with almost $ 7 million in an empty house in Coari (AM). The suspicion is that the money was diverted from municipal through fraud in bidding. To the police, the bags of money belonged to the criminal group discovered in Operation Vorax.

According to the Federal Police, the officers were checking an anonymous complaint that there would be money in a house in a range of housing Coari.

When arrived on the scene, the house was abandoned, but were lining in the seven suitcases full of money. Facade of stamps of companies used in the scheme were also found.

Federal agents triggered on Tuesday (20), Operation Vorax, in which 23 people were arrested. According to research, they are part of a square bidding mounted for cheating in Coari.

Source: G1

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Board allows shared custody of children

The Chamber of Deputies approved this Tuesday (20) a bill allowing the shared custody of children of divorced couples. This means that a child will spend the time with his father and part with the mother, who also share the responsibility for their children. The project has already been approved by the Senate and presidential sanction to follow.

The text adopted by members allows the judge decides for the same shared custody to a dispute between the parties. The project gives preference to this type of guard instead of unilateral, in which only one parent is left with the children.

In shared custody, the parents separated divide the responsibilities on their children. It is up to parents decide together all matters concerning the development of their heirs.

To define the activities of parents in custody shared the judge may request aid to a professional. Any unauthorized alteration or breach of clauses of the contract of guard may involve a loss of law, including the reduction of the number of hours that the father or the mother has with the child.

Source: G1

Monday, May 19, 2008

Job creation formal hits record in early 2008

The creation of jobs formal beat new historical record in the first four months of 2008, according to the General Register of Employees and Unemployed (Caged) of the Ministry of Labour, disclosed this Monday (19).

According to the record, were generated from the beginning of the year by 848,962 jobs in April with signed portfolio, equivalent to growth of 2.93% in the period. Regarding accumulated in the first quarter of 2007 (701,619 vacancies), growth is 21%.

In the last 12 months, the level of formal employment grew 6.29%, equivalent to the creation of 1,764,735 new jobs. The result is higher than the cumulative observed in 2007, which had registered the creation of 1,360,799 vacancies - growth of 5.04% compared to 2006.

Source: G1

Petrobras exceeds Microsoft in market value, says study

Petrobras surpassed Microsoft has, becoming the third largest company on the American continent in the market value (sum of the value of their shares), according to consultancy Economática released this Monday (19).

The survey took as a basis the stock price of companies in last Friday (16), when the Petrobras had a market value of approximately $ 287.2 billion, against $ 279.3 billion of the largest software world.

On that day, preferred shares of Petrobras closed quoted at R $ 48.15, while shares worth $ 57.90. Already the roles of Microsoft closed worth $ 29.99 each.

In one year, the Brazilian company's stock rose over 110%, while the roles of Microsoft suffered devaluation of 3.5% over the closing on May 16, 2007

In the ranking of the largest companies in America in market value, apart from Petrobras, listed as other Brazilian CVRD, in ninth place with $ 196.5 billion, and Bradesco, with $ 67.2 billion in the forty-third position.

The only Mexican company to appear in the ranking is the operator of phone America Movil, with U.S. $ 99 billion, with twenty-ninth position. First on the list was the largest oil company in the world, Exxon Mobil, with value estimated at U.S. $ 489.6 billion.

Source: G1

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Anna Jatobá meets with parents in the prison chapel

Anna Carolina Jatobá and their parents, that this Sunday (18) were the female prison of Tremembé, to 138 km from Sao Paulo, met in a chapel, located at the back of the prison, according to informed her father, Alexandre Jatobá.

The visit to the parents of Isabella lasted about two hours. "Slew the nostalgia. We mourn. In embrace, "said Alexandre Jatobá, to leave the prison. Parents led the Anna Jatobá two books of Allan Kardec on doctrines of spiritism, clothes and food.

According to her father, stepmother still saying that it is innocent and prove his innocence. In the assessment of Alexander Jatobá, it is well "as far as possible" and that itself out of health problem seen by a doctor last Friday (16). According to her father, the greatest concern of Anna Jatobá is with the children.

Source: G1

Elevator with 12 people despenca 9 meters in hospital in Grande SP

A lift despencou this Sunday (18) about nine meters in height - the ground floor until the second underground - at least 12 people in a private hospital in Barueri, in Greater Sao Paulo, according to information from the Fire Brigade of Barueri.

Extra-officially, an official of the secretariat of the hospital confirmed the 12 victims, but not spent more information. The direction of the hospital has not yet been expressed about the accident.

A police office in Central Barueri said that was in place and was informed by municipal guards that 12 people were taken off the elevator after the accident. According to the police, the lift will be submitted to expertise that vai investigating the causes of the fall.

Also according to the fire, only two of the victims had more serious injuries - a machucou the knee and another fraturou the leg. The others are well. Fire fighters still do not know the causes of the accident, if there was weight than the allowable limit or a defect in the lift.

The victims were visiting relatives and friends in hospital and were answered on the spot - the 17h, they were still under observation in hospital, according to firefighters. The accident happened around 15h of this Sunday and three teams of firefighters were sent to hospital.

Source: G1

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Lula ironiza debate on food crisis and denies responsibility in Brazil

The President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva joked this Saturday (17) the debate in Europe and developed countries on the food crisis, the preservation of the Amazon and criticism biofuels, of which Brazil is the world leader.

"Now (say) we are responsible for the increase in the price of food. However, yesterday (in the V Summit of Latin America, Caribbean and European Union) not seen any European talk about the (price of) oil. It is like the sacred cow. Moves from $ 30 to $ 124 there is one critical, "Lula denounced.

Source: G1

Friday, May 16, 2008

Arrested owner of boat that sank in the Amazon

He was arrested on the afternoon of Friday (16), Dallas (AM), one of the owners of the vessel Commander Sales, which sank in Rio Solimoes. At least 48 people died in the sinking. The Navy reported that the situation on the boat was irregular.

Pre-trial detention was imposed this Friday at the request of the delegate of the council. According to witnesses, the owner would be riding the boat on the wreck.

On the day of the accident, the boat went to Dallas after a party in the town of Lake Fish. There is no confirmation of the number of passengers, because there was no official list. Somados the numbers of victims rescued with life and of bodies found, the Navy estimates that at least 118 people were on board, but the number may be higher.

Source: G1

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Defence of Nardoni seek habeas with merit trial

The lawyer Ricardo Martins, who defends the couple Alexandre Nardoni and Ana Carolina Jatobá, said the defense will only come with the application for habeas-corpus in the High Court of Justice (STJ), in Brasilia, after the trial of merit, when three desembargadores vote to decide whether or not the couple remains imprisoned. Earlier, the lawyers claimed that come with the application yet this Thursday. Information is the SPTV.

The judge Caio Canguçu de Almeida is one of the judges who will consider the merits of the application for temporary custody.

Meanwhile, Alexandre Nardoni continues Infirmary in the Provisional Detention Center in Guarulhos, isolated from other prisoners. Already the parents of Isabella, Anna Carolina Jatobá, remains held in the Women's Penitentiary in Santa Maria Eufrásia Pelletier Tremembé, in the interior of Sao Paulo.

Isabella Nardoni wound was found on March 29, in the garden of the building where the father lives, Alexandre Nardoni, and stepmother, Anna Carolina Trotta Jatobá, in the northern part of Sao Paulo. According to the fire, the girl has been brought to socorrida and Ready-Relief of Santa Casa, but not resist the wounds and died at around 0h.

Source: Terra

Presa woman who took cocaine next to the body of the son of 3 years

Five people were arrested for drug trafficking, this Thursday (15), in two buses that circulated in the BR-386. Vehicles followed towards Porto Alegre and were discussed during a joint surveillance of the Federal Police and the Federal Traffic Police.

In the first bus, which had resulted from Foz do Iguacu, were seized 1.2 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a sound system. Two men, 46 and 26 years old, were arrested. Besides the drugs, were seized a digital scale and a bag with toys, clothes and shoes without proof of origin.

In the second bus, coming from High Forest (MT), a woman aged 19 carrying 2 kg of cocaine next to the body of the son of 3 years. The drug was hidden by a blanket. A couple was arrested on the spot where the woman deliver the entorpecente.

Detainees are being heard in the Superintendency of the Federal Police in Porto Alegre. The child will remain under care of the Guardianship Council.

Source: G1

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

CGU points loss of $ 153.2 million

The Controller-General Union (CGU) concluded the audits carried out in contracts of works executed by Construtora Gautama with use of federal resources. The body showed losses of $ 153.2 million. The work involved the analysis of 21 agreements and contracts signed for the execution of works in several states.

For the works audited, the volume of resources released reached the total of $ 420.3 million, which means that the losses represented approximately 36.5% of the resources released. The audits of CGU served as a subsidy to the accusations made yesterday by prosecutors, from the so-called Operation Razor, triggered by the Federal Police.

The auditors found that CGU of the irregularities found, in most cases were similar. According to the national, had a modus operandi constant: the work plans of the agreements were approved without the necessary detail; bids were targeted for Gautama, and after the bidding, firmavam up contracts with generic imprecise definitions of services and quantitative .

Moreover, during the implementation of contracts, measurements showed inconsistencies and games, spreadsheet and subcontracts occurred on prices significantly below the budgeted. According to the CGU, finally, is practiced sobrepreço and overpricing of materials and services, as well as payments for services not performed.

Among the works of Gautama audited by CGU are doubling the pipeline system of the river San Francisco (Sergipe), the expansion of the supply of water from the river Pratagy (Alagoas), the dam of Rio Preto (Federal District); channel pipeline Sierra the Batateira (Bahia), the irrigation project for the settlement of Three Bars (Missouri), and implementation of the Light for All Programme (Piaui).

The work that showed a greater volume of injury was the doubling of the pipeline system of the river San Francisco, in Sergipe. The losses in that work came to $ 78.4 million in historical values. According to the CGU, the charge made as a result, principally, the practice of sobrepreço, facilitated by the restriction on the nature and direction of competitive bidding for the benefit of Gautama.

To investigate the possible involvement of public officials in the federal scheme, introduced three CGU Administrative Disciplinary Proceedings (PADs) and examines the possibility of setting up another seven.

Also, on account of irregularities found in audits, the chief minister of CGU, Jorge Hage, said in July last year, the inidoneidade of Gautama Construction Company for contracting with the government.

Source: Terra