Friday, March 4, 2016

Brazil Petrobras outrage: Former president Lula addressed 



Previous Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been addressed by police and his home attacked as a component of a noteworthy extortion investigation into the state oil organization Petrobras. He was discharged following three hours of addressing. Lula, who left office in 2011, has prevented charges from claiming debasement. The long-running request, known as Operation Car Wash, is testing allegations of defilement and IRS evasion at Petrobras. Many administrators and government officials have been captured or are under scrutiny on suspicion of cheating contracts with Petrobras and utilizing part of the cash to pay for fixes and constituent battles. 

Police said they had proof that Lula, 70, got illegal advantages from the kickback plan. Be that as it may, no charges have been brought against him in this way. 

Lula's organization said in an announcement (in Portuguese) the "savagery" against the previous president was "self-assertive, illicit and ridiculous", as he had been co-working with the investigations.Officials said about 33 court orders and 11 detainment warrants were completed by 200 government police specialists in the conditions of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Bahia. Lula's home in Sao Bernardo do Campo, close Sao Paulo, was attacked from the get-go Friday. The central station of his establishment in Sao Paulo was likewise focused, just like his wife, Marisa, and children, reports said. There is significantly more in question in these examinations than simply Lula's own notoriety. His legacy and the eventual fate of his political task for Brazil - which has formed the nation for as far back as 14 years - are likewise under investigation. 
Under his Workers' Party, Brazil has seen a time of tremendous monetary development and a fall in disparity. Also, now, under the same party, the nation is confronting its most exceedingly awful retreat in 25 years; pundits point to the administration's missteps for making the emergency. Lula has said he is readied to keep running for president in 2018. Notwithstanding, all together for his political venture to survive, he will need to demonstrate his innocence and his party's. His detainment is a noteworthy obstruction in his way. 

Markets in Brazil responded emphatically to the news. The estimation of the Brazilian coin, the genuine, surged 3% in the morning. Sao Paulo's primary stock trade record climbed more than 4% in the introductory hours of exchanging. 

One of the lines of request is that development organizations focused by the operation could have favored Lula in the improvement of a farm and an extravagance beachfront loft. Assaults in the urban communities where these properties are found were additionally completed. Some of these organizations have likewise contracted Lula and his establishment for talks. 

"Previous president Lula, other than being gathering pioneer, was the one at last in charge of the choice on who might be the executives at Petrobras and was one of the primary recipients of these violations," a police articulation cited by Reuters news organization said. 

"There is confirmation that the violations enhanced him and financed discretionary crusades and the treasury of his political gathering."

Pakistan police stop marriage of 10-year-old young lady 

Nearby town older folks had requested the marriage after the young lady's sibling was blamed for slaughtering his wife. Journalists say "vani" relational unions, where a lady is requested to wed to settle the wrongdoing of a relative, are unlawful yet stay regular in Pakistan. Police say they have captured four town older folks over the case. The vani marriage had been because of happen in Punjab's Rahimyar Khan area on Friday, yet was halted after police assaulted the town. Officers were all the while looking for almost 20 different suspects, police official Chaudhry Yasin told the BBC. 


The young lady's sibling was blamed for murdering his wife after he associated her with an undertaking. He was captured and is as of now in prison. Taking after his capture, a board of nearby town older folks, known as a panchayat, was called to settle the contention between the two families. Both families had a place with the minority Hindu group living in Rahimyar Khan, Chaudhry Yasin said. The panchayat decided that the 10-year-old young lady ought to wed the 14-year-old kid, who was a relative of the casualty, keeping in mind the end goal to settle the debate. Under Pakistani law, relatives of a homicide casualty have the privilege to acquit the culprit consequently for blood cash or a trade off, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.

Both honor killings and vani relational unions stay basic in Pakistan, with culprits from poorer and less powerful segments of society destined to be arraigned, our reporter includes.

In January, a bill that proposed raising the lawful period of marriage for ladies from 16 to 18 was pulled back after a religious body, the Council of Islamic Ideology, depicted the bill as "un-Islamic".