Lawyers

• Brazil speaker faces ethics investigation on Swiss accounts

  A Brazilian congressional ethics committee decided on Monday to investigate whether lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha lied in a corruption hearing about Swiss bank accounts that prosecutors say he controls.

• Lula throws weight behind Scioli's bid for Argentina presidency

  Brazil's popular but scandal-weary former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva endorsed Argentina's ruling party presidential candidate on Wednesday, shoring up Daniel Scioli's credentials with the political left a month and a half before the election.

• Brazil judge says president's ex-chief of staff may have been bribed

  A federal judge in Brazil overseeing a sweeping corruption investigation said on Tuesday there were signs that President Dilma Rousseff's former chief of staff had received bribes.

• Itau boss sees no cause yet for Rousseff impeachment: newspaper

  The chief executive of Itau Unibanco Holding SA, Brazil's biggest bank by market value, said he does not yet see justification for President Dilma Rousseff to be impeached.

• U.S. graft probes may cost Petrobras record $1.6 billion or more - source

  Brazil's Petrobras may need to pay record penalties of $1.6 billion or more to settle U.S. criminal and civil probes into its role in a corruption scandal, a person recently briefed by the company's legal advisors told Reuters.

• Brazil police arrest Lula minister in bribery scandal

  Brazilian police on Monday arrested former government minister Jose Dirceu, one of the most senior members of the ruling Workers' Party to be detained so far in a corruption scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras.

• Brazil nuclear leader's arrest may stymie its atomic ambitions

  The arrest of the longtime head of Brazil's nuclear energy utility on corruption charges could disrupt a plan to revive Brazilian nuclear ambitions whose roots go back to its atomic-bomb program in the 1980s.

• Most Brazilians favor impeachment, but few see Rousseff gone: poll

  Almost two thirds of Brazilians favor the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff over a corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras, but roughly as many doubt it would drive her from office, according to a poll released on Saturday.

• Brazil says no 'grand bargain' with builders in Petrobras scandal

  President Dilma Rousseff's government denied on Wednesday that it is looking to strike a "grand bargain" with Brazilian construction and engineering firms implicated in the kickback scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras.

• Brazil government backers take to streets ahead of Sunday protests

  Pro-government labor unions and social activists staged demonstrations across Brazil on Friday in support of President Dilma Rousseff, two days before mass protests planned against her administration.

• Brazil probes link between HSBC Swiss accounts, Petrobras scandal: sources

  Brazil's tax watchdog opened a probe on whether about a dozen people involved in the Petrobras corruption scandal also allegedly had undeclared accounts with HSBC Holdings Plc's private bank in Switzerland, two sources with knowledge of the situation said on Saturday.

• Petrobras CEO says has 'full autonomy', questions graft loss

  The new chief executive officer of Brazil's Petrobras said on Tuesday that he has full autonomy to dictate its own fuel-pricing policy and protect cash, even as he questioned the size of losses stemming from a giant corruption scandal.

• Brazil police seize luxury cars, cash from fallen tycoon Batista

  Brazilian police said they seized seven cars, including a white Lamborghini, and $32,490 in cash, computers, watches and other items on Friday from embattled oil and mining tycoon Eike Batista, who is on trial for insider trading in Rio de Janeiro.

• Brazil police question ruling party treasurer in Petrobras probe

  Brazilian federal police said on Thursday they had started questioning João Vaccari Neto, the treasurer of the country's ruling Workers' Party, as a corruption probe focused on state-run oil company Petrobras widened to include political figures.

• Brazil's Congress elects Rousseff critic as speaker

  Brazil's Congress elected a conservative as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday in a setback for the ruling Workers' Party that split President Dilma Rousseff's coalition and will complicate her legislative agenda.

• Brazil's Petrobras probe grows with international firms eyed

  A Brazilian police officer investigating a kick-back scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras said the total amount of money involved could exceed $28 billion, making it the country's biggest-ever money laundering probe.

• Petrobras hit with U.S. class action suit over $98 billion in securities

  Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA and some of its executives were hit with a U.S. class action lawsuit by investors in $98 billion of the company's securities over an alleged kickback and bribery scheme.

• Brazil leader Rousseff's popularity undented by Petrobras scandal

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's approval rating has not suffered from a widening corruption scandal involving state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA and many Brazilians continue to trust her, a poll showed on Wednesday.

• Brazil's fallen tycoon Batista goes on trial for insider trading

  Eike Batista, once Brazil's richest man, arrived at a Rio de Janeiro courthouse on Tuesday for trial on charges of insider trading in the run up to the bankruptcy of his oil firm OGX, the largest bankruptcy in Latin American history.

• Brazil government says will not interfere with Petrobras probe

  The Brazilian government will not interfere with a police investigation into suspected graft at state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the country's justice minister said on Saturday.

• Brazil police detain 27 more in Petrobras-linked probe

  Brazil's federal police were serving 27 additional arrest warrants on Friday in a broad money-laundering investigation that has ensnared a former senior executive at oil firm Petrobras, causing it to delay releasing its results.