FOR much of the time since he became finance minister nearly three years ago, Antonio Palocci has been under siege. Many businessmen and economists, and even fellow-members of the government ...

THE policy is set by the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but its main executor and most trenchant defender since January 2003 has been Antonio Palocci, the finance minister. Now Mr Palocci ...

Antonio Palocci, considered an anchor of fiscal discipline and rigorous inflation control, quit as chief of staff late on Tuesday after a drawn-out scandal over his sudden enrichment and ...

Antonio Palocci, who was minister during the governments of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, affirmed that he gave the former president, in “several opportunities”, cash proceeds of bribes ...

Former Brazilian Finance Minister Antonio Palocci told a court hearing Thursday that he could provide details of a political kickback scheme, which could threaten former President Luiz Inacio Lula ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian Finance Minister Antonio Palocci told a court hearing on Thursday that he could provide details of a political kickback scheme, which could threaten former ...

Brazilian police on Monday arrested Antonio Palocci, a former finance minister and senior figure in the last two governments, as part of the Petrobras corruption probe, prosecutors said.

The judge summoned Jesuíno Rissato, of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), decided today (1st) to annul one of the convictions of former minister Antonio Palocci and other defendants in one of ...

Antonio Palocci, once considered Lula's right-hand man, accused the ex-president of receiving a building for his institute and an apartment. He made the testimony to a federal judge investigating ...

Revelations of a surge in the personal wealth of Antonio Palocci, the government's chief power broker and a key economic policy-maker, have abruptly ended Rousseff's political honeymoon after ...

Now, Antonio Palocci is commanding Mr. da Silva's transition team, as well as the respect of many businesspeople who appreciate his economic common sense. "Palocci is an experienced, pragmatic ...