Brazil conducted on Thursday one of the country’s largest anti-corruption operations ever when authorities cracked down on a money laundering network of politicians and businessmen accused of moving US$1 billion to accounts in over 50 countries, Reuters reported.

Brazil’s Supreme Court confirmed that Senator Aecio Neves will stand trial for corruption and obstruction of justice charges, a news release stated Tuesday.

A Brazilian judge fined Facebook US$33.4 million on Thursday for failing to cooperate with prosecutors in a graft probe in the state of Amazonas. 

After 10 hours of deliberation, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to begin serving his 12-year prison sentence while he continues to appeal his corruption conviction.

Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff criticized Netflix for political bias and character assassination in its latest series on the infamous Lava Jato corruption investigation, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Brazilian authorities arrested a Catholic bishop who along with six other priests is  suspected of having stolen some US$600,000 from church collection boxes, donations and wedding and baptism fees, BBC News reported Tuesday. 

Brazilian police issued several search warrants on Friday in a new phase of the Lava Jato corruption investigation, now looking into the world’s third biggest hydroelectric company, Norte Energia, which is suspected of having bribed government officials in order to win a contract to build a dam.

A federal judge sent on Wednesday former Petrobras CEO Aldemir Bendine to jail for 11 years for taking US$1million in bribes from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, Reuters reported.

Millions fill the streets of Rio de Janeiro every February to dance the smooth samba rhythms and watch the giant floats and brightly-costumed performers celebrate the nation’s strengths and mock its shortcomings.

Beija-Flor's winning float: a rat pulling the Petrobras HQ (Photo: AFP)

Three judges upheld the corruption conviction against former two-term president of Brazil and current presidential candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.

Brazil lawmakers have voted on Wednesday for the second time to block President Michel Temer’s trial on corruption charges that would have forced him to step down for at least six months.

Brazilian police arrested on Thursday the head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee who allegeldy took part in a bribery plot designed to ensure the 2016 Olympic games were awarded to the city of Rio de Janeiro, newspaper RFIreported.

Federal judge Sergio Moro noted Monday that Brazil’s largest corruption probe codenamed Operation Car Wash is in its final stages, Reuters reported.

The billionaire at the centre of Brazil’s meat-packing corruption scandal was arrested Sunday after his lawyers accidentally sent the wrong tape to prosecutors and revealed his guilt.

Police searched on Tuesday the home of Brazil’s top Olympics official and called him for questioning about his possible role in buying votes to secure the 2016 Games for Rio de Janeiro, theNew York Times reported.

Brazilian Federal Police arrested on Monday 79 suspects and raided 190 locations in a crackdown on a drug-trafficking syndicate that tried to ship more than six tons of pure cocaine to European cities over the past year.

Brazilian authorities expanded Friday their mammoth corruption investigation, Operation Car Wash, to include at least five Greek shipping companies, a US asphalt firm and a Brazilian ex-congressman.

The Bucharest office of RISE Project, an Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) partner, underwent an unannounced inspection by the anti-fraud bureau of Romania’s National Fiscal Agency (ANAF) even as important Romanian politicians threatened the outlet in both public and private.

Officers from the Romanian Anti-Fraud Authority at the offices of RISE Project, OCCRP's Romanian partner, during a surprise inspection. (Photo: RISE Project)

Brazilian police have arrested a former minister and close ally of President Michel Temer, accusing him of corruption and obstruction of justice, the prosecutor’s office said Monday.

Brazilian authorities said Saturday that they have arrested South America’s most wanted “drug baron” who evaded justice for three decades by changing his name and altering his face using plastic surgery.