News of corruption

Raids uncover corrupt mayor’s stash of cash, guns and luxury cars

15-10-2021 12:32 Courts in Salta Province order police raids on 18 properties linked to Salvador Mazza Mayor Rubén Méndez, confiscating more than US$850,000 in cash, weapons and imported luxury cars.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner declares wealth of 16.4 million pesos

22-09-2021 14:19 Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner declares total wealth of 16,463,095 pesos; Máximo Kirchner reports 400 million pesos.

Thousands in Brazil join anti-Bolsonaro protests

03-07-2021 21:44 Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets to protest President Jair Bolsonaro, who faces an investigation over an allegedly corrupt Covid vaccine deal. 

New claims of Covid vaccine graft in Brazil

30-06-2021 14:35 Senior Health Ministry official resigns after newspaper publishes fresh allegations of corruption in Brazil's vaccine programme.

Brazil raids target top officials in Covid-battered Amazonas

02-06-2021 15:59 Brazilian police carried out raids in the Amazonas state Wednesday, targeting top officials suspected of embezzling pandemic emergency funds.

Swiss bank Julius Baer admits it funnelled money to TyC, Grondona

28-05-2021 16:39 Swiss Bank admits to participating in money-laundering of some US$36 million in bribes in the "FIFAgate" scandal, US officials announced on Thursday. One of the bank's employees has admitted to transferring millions of dollars to late AFA chief Julio Grondona.

Cristina & the courts: Outstanding cases against Argentina's vice-president

17-04-2021 08:59 Dollar futures case dismissed against former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who led nation between 2007 and 2015. But Argentina’s current vice-president – who denies all the charges filed against her and claims she is a victim of “judicial and political persecution” – still faces a number of other allegations in the courts.

Ex-Public Works secretary José López seeks release from jail

17-04-2021 08:53 Former government official, who was found with millions of dollars and weapons in a bag outside a convent, seeks release after almost five years behind bars without a firm sentence.

Netanyahu polling ahead but win uncertain in new Israel vote

22-03-2021 14:37 Israeli voters readied for a fourth election in under two years Tuesday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead in the polls but uncertain of clinching a governing majority.

What we learned this week: March 13 to 20

20-03-2021 08:34 A selection of some of the headlines that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argenina

by Michael Soltys

Macri returns, but is unable to turn the page

20-03-2021 07:35 Taking a page from Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s playbook, Mauricio Macri has used a book launch to reset his political career in the midst of an electoral campaign.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Luis Naidenoff: ‘Formosa is a model of oppression, domination and patronage’

20-03-2021 06:54 Leading Radical and Senate Minority Leader Luis Naidenoff on Formosa Province, Governor Gildo Insfrán and the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

The year of the jab

06-03-2021 09:29 The president’s speech was not all about Covid. Fernández drove home the message – with the five members of the Supreme Court looking on remotely – that he is not satisfied with the performance of the judicial branch.

by Martín Gambarotta

Fernando Henrique Cardoso: ‘There are times which require us to move actively towards equality’

06-03-2021 08:40 Former Brazil president – the country’s first to be re-elected for a subsequent term – discusses Jair Bolsonaro, inequality, poverty and what it means a social democrat in the 21st century.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Defiant Sarkozy on offensive after graft conviction

03-03-2021 10:54 Former France president Nicolas Sarkozy launches offensive to clear his name after being handed a three-year sentence for corruption, lambasting the verdict and mulling a petition to Europe's top rights court.

Message in a syringe

27-02-2021 08:59 With President Alberto Fernández set to open the ordinary sessions of Congress with a state-of-the-nation address, the usual buzz of anticipation is conspicuous by its absence.

There's no jab against ego tripping

27-02-2021 07:29 Cutting corners, contacting cronies for dodgy favours and jumping lines is almost a national sport in Argentina.

by Martín Gambarotta

Lázaro Báez sentenced to 12 years in jail for money-laundering

24-02-2021 17:49 Businessman Lázaro Báez, at the centre of a corruption probe involving ex-presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner, was sentenced to 12 years in jail Wednesday on money-laundering charges

What we learned this week: January 30 to February 6

06-02-2021 10:28 A selection of stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Marcela Losardo: 'Alberto Fernández has been preparing all his life for this job'

30-01-2021 07:46 Throughout the last 40 years, nobody has spent more time close to the president than his Justice Minister Marcela Losardo, his chief confidante.

by Jorge Fontevecchia