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...UBS analyst Thiago Batista said BTG’s business model had undergone a “transformation” in the past few years towards “a kind of complete bank with all services”....
...Three grave diggers, one dressed in a white protective smock, quickly buried Vítor Batista’s wooden coffin....
...Israel Matos Batista, a lawmaker from the Green party, said Brazil was “experiencing a moment of tension in Latin American politics, a tension that can contaminate Brazilian institutions if the government...
...Mr Tomazoni will replace the 85-year old José Batista Sobrinho, who took over from his son Wesley Batista last year following his arrest....
...Mr Batista’s lawyer, André Calligari said on Friday “his imprisonment in the midst of an inquiry in which he has provided more than one testimony as collaborator is surprising”....
...Last year, JBS was at the centre of a bribery scandal after a tape surfaced of Joesley Batista, its former chairman, allegedly discussing bribes with outgoing president Michel Temer....
...(Reuters) Joesley Batista of giant meatpacker JBS was arrested again by Brazilian police in a graft probe stemming from the sweeping Lava Jato investigation....
...Prosecutors on Monday added that Wesley Batista traded in foreign currency then, making R$100m....
...Former JBS chairman Joesley Batista and his brother Wesley, the company’s CEO, signed plea bargains last year admitting to massive corruption, including bribing more than 1,800 politicians over several years...
...Brazil’s federal police has on Wednesday detained Wesley Batista, the chief executive of the world’s largest meatpacker JBS, amid allegations of potential insider trading....
...JBS has been selling assets and the Batista brother’s investment company, J&F, is facing fines of R$10.3bn ($3.1bn) over 25 years....
...The Batista brother’s investment company,. J&F, is facing fines of R$10.3bn over 25 years with JBS divesting assets to pay for the penalties....
...The Batistas control 42 per cent of the São Paulo-based company....
...Earlier this year, he became the first sitting president of Brazil to face criminal charges after he was accused of discussing bribes with businessman Joesley Batista of meatpacker JBS....
...Earlier this year, the centre-right leader became the first sitting president of Brazil to face criminal charges after he was secretly taped in March allegedly discussing bribes with Joesley Batista, the...
...of wrongdoing by Mr Batista, analysts said....
...Pierpaolo Cruz Bottini, the brothers’ lawyer, said “the arrest of the Batista brothers on the insider information inquiry is unjust....
...The Supreme Court had ordered that the senator be suspended from his position as a precautionary measure pending an investigation into allegations he asked for R$2m in bribes from Mr Batista....
...operator who has been head of the lower house of Congress three times, survived a similar congressional vote last month on whether he should face trial over charges he allegedly discussed bribes with Joesley Batista...
...In April, Batista left prison to be put on house arrest....
...But he was accused of corruption in May after a businessman, Joesley Batista of meatpacker JBS, recorded him allegedly secretly discussing bribes....
...Moreover, Mr Temer this year became the first sitting president of Brazil to face criminal charges after he was secretly taped in March allegedly discussing bribes with a businessman, Joesley Batista, the...
...The second charge, obstruction of justice, stems from his alleged discussion of bribes with Joesley Batista, the former chairman of meatpacker JBS, who has since been detained....
...The chief prosecutor alleges Mr Batista was paying bribes on behalf of Mr Temer to a former black market money dealer who worked for the PMDB, Lúcio Funaro, and Mr Cunha so that they would not enter into...
...“I don’t know if the market and society are on the same page,” says André Perfeito, chief economist of Gradual Investimentos....
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