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Assassination Of Marielle Franco
Marielle Franco, a Brazilian politician and activist, was fatally shot on March 14, 2018, in Estácio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The assassins were in a car that pulled up alongside the Rio de Janeiro councilwoman's car and fired several shots, which also killed the driver, Anderson Gomes. Former military police officers Ronnie Lessa and Élcio Vieira de Queiroz confessed to the killings and were sentenced to 59 and 78 years in prison, respectively. Assassination Marielle arrived at the Casa das Pretas, on rua dos Inválidos, in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, Lapa, to mediate a debate promoted by the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) with young black women, around 7:00 pm. According to images obtained by the police, a Chevrolet Cobalt#Second generation (2011), Cobalt with a Nova Iguaçu license plate, a city in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro, was parked near the venue. Around 11:00 pm, Marielle left the Casa das Pretas with an aide and a driver and was soon followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivaldo Barbosa (chief Of Police)
Rivaldo Barbosa de Araújo Júnior (born 31 May 1969) is a Brazilian professor and chief of police who served as Chief of the Civil Police from 13 March 2018 until December of the same year. He assumed the position one day before the assassination of Marielle Franco, following an invitation from the then–Federal Interventionist Walter Braga Netto. He is considered suspect of involvement in the assassination of councilwoman Marielle Franco and driver Anderson Gomes, more specifically of obstructing the investigations. Life Rivaldo Barbosa de Araújo Júnior was born in the city Rio de Janeiro on 31 May 1969, to Rivaldo Barbosa de Araújo and Yolanda Palhares de Araújo. He graduated in law from in 1997 and pursued an MBA in Intelligence and Strategy from . he was a professor of criminal law at Estácio de Sá University; according to information on his LinkedIn profile, he has been professor at a "private university" since 2003. Around 2008, Barbosa was responsible for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Freixo
Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo () is a Brazilian politician and teacher affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT). He had served as a federal deputy for the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), and was formerly chairman of the Defence of Human Rights and Citizenship Commission on the Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly. Freixo gained national attention when he presided over a parliamentary inquiry commission on police militias in Rio de Janeiro, having a character inspired on him in the Brazilian film '' Elite Squad: The Enemy Within'', directed by José Padilha. He ran for mayor of Rio de Janeiro twice, in 2012 and 2016, having as vice-mayor candidate on the ticket in 2016 the lawyer and professor at UFRJ Luciana Boiteux. He ended in second in both the run-offs, losing the first to Eduardo Paes from PMDB, and the second to the PRB candidate Marcelo Crivella. On 16 June 2021, Freixo left PSOL for PSB, in preparation for the 2022 Rio de Janeiro gubernatorial election. He left the Brazilian Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council For Financial Activities Control
The Council for Financial Activities Control () is the national Financial Intelligence Unit of Brazil that is responsible for receiving and analyzing information on financial transactions which are considered to be linked to money laundering. The COAF disseminates the results of its analyses to the competent authorities where there are grounds to suspect money laundering or terrorist financing. It was originally created in 1998 "under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, for the purpose of regulating, applying administrative sanctions, receiving pertinent information, examining and identifying suspicious occurrences of illicit activities related to money laundering." Its organization and structure, as well as its Internal Rules and Regulations, were also defined in a Decree and Administrative Rule respectively, both enacted between October and December 1998. On 19 August 2019 the name of the COAF was changed to ''Financial Intelligence Unit'' (''Unidade de Inteligência F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dias Toffoli
José Antonio Dias Toffoli (born November 15, 1967) is a Brazilian lawyer who has been a member of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil since 2009, nominated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Toffoli was the president of the Supreme Federal Court for the 2018–20 term. Biography José Dias Toffoli was born in Marília, São Paulo (state), São Paulo in 1967, the son of Luiz Toffoli and Sebastiana Seixas Dias Toffoli. He attended the Law School, University of São Paulo, law school of the University of São Paulo from 1986 to 1990, graduating with a bachelor's degree in law. While in college, Toffoli presided the student union. From 1996 to 2002 he was a professor of constitutional and family law at Centro Universitário de Brasília. In 1994 and 1995 Toffoli took civil service entrance examination, examinations for a position as a judge in the state of São Paulo, but was twice rejected. Toffoli was then the legal representative for the Workers' Party (Brazil), Workers' Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Federal Court
The Federal Supreme Court (, , abbreviated STF) is the supreme court (court of last resort) of Brazil, serving primarily as the country's Constitutional Court. It is the highest court of law in Brazil for constitutional issues and its rulings cannot be appealed. On cases involving exclusively non-constitutional issues, regarding federal laws, the highest court is, by rule, the Superior Court of Justice. History The current court was preceded by the House of Appeals of Brazil (Casa de Suplicação do Brasil), which was inaugurated during the colonial era on 10 May 1808, the year that the Portuguese royal family (the House of Braganza) arrived in Rio de Janeiro after fleeing to Brazil. The Brazilian proclamation of Independence and the adoption of the Imperial Constitution in 1824 preceded the establishment of the Supreme Court of Justice () in 1829, which served as the Brazilian Empire's supreme court. With the fall of the monarchy and Brazil's first Republican Consti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raquel Dodge
Raquel Elias Ferreira Dodge (born 26 July 1961) is a former Prosecutor General of Brazil. Previously, she was a sub-prosecutor general of the Republic and served as the Prosecutor General of the Republic from 2017 to 2019. Biography Dodge was born on 26 July 1961 in Vila Bela neighborhood of Morrinhos, Goiás to lawyer José Rodrigues Ferreira and housewife Ivone Elias Cândido Ferreira. She was baptized the following day, which she was born. Her aunt, Ivonete Elias Cândido, was a teacher at Coronel Pedro Nunes School and was responsible for her education at the school. She also served on the Superior Council of the Public Prosecutor's Office and was coordinator of the Criminal Chamber of the Public Prosecutor's Office. She holds a bachelor's degree in law and state from the University of Brasília (UnB) in 1986 and a masters in law from the University of Harvard in 2007. She joined the public prosecutor's office in 1987. From 2005 to 2006, she participated in a human rights pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RecordTV
Record (stylized in uppercase; ), formerly known as Rede Record and RecordTV, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network. It is currently the second largest commercial TV station in Brazil, and the 28th largest in the 2012 world ranking. In 2010, it was elected by the advertising market as the fifth largest station in the world in revenues and the eighth largest network in physical structure. In June 2021, it ranked second among the most watched channels in the country in the National Television Panel, behind only TV Globo. As the main member of the media company Grupo Record, the network is headquartered in São Paulo, where most of its programming is also generated at the Dermeval Gonçalves Theater, and has a branch in Rio de Janeiro, where its telenovelas and other formats are produced at the Casablanca Estúdios (RecNov) complex. Its national coverage is achieved by retransmission from 111 stations, 15 of which are owned by the company and 96 of which are affiliate s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GloboNews
GloboNews is a Brazilian news-based pay television channel, owned by Canais Globo, a division of Grupo Globo. History GloboNews launched in 1996. In the previous year, Alice-Maria Reiniger had been invited to return to Sky Brasil, where she had started her career in journalism, to deploy and direct Brazil's first 24-hour news channel. She created and helmed GloboNews for the next decade. On 27 August 2002, Globo News on Sky Brasil became the first news channel in Latin America to include interactive functions, with data from the channel's website. The interactive service was also used for the 2002 elections. The channel was relaunched on 18 October 2010 with a new logo and a new slogan "''Nunca desliga''!" ("''Never turns off''!") and more in-depth coverage, especially during daytime. A high-definition simulcast was launched on 3 February 2013. Programming Programming on GloboNews currently uses generic graphics (except for most repeats of TV Globo TV Globo (styli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Globo
''O Globo'' (, ''The Globe'') is a Brazilian newspaper based in Rio de Janeiro. ''O Globo'' is the leading daily newspaper in the country and the most prominent print publication in the Grupo Globo media conglomerate. Founded by journalist Irineu Marinho, owner of '' A Noite'', it was originally intended as a morning daily to extend the newspaper interests of the company. In time, it became the flagship paper of the group. When Irineu died weeks after the founding of the newspaper in 1925, it was inherited by his son Roberto. At age 21, he started working as a trainee reporter for the paper and later became managing editor. Roberto Marinho developed Grupo Globo (the conglomerate of media companies consisting of ''O Globo,'' TV Globo, Rádio Globo, Editora Globo and other subsidiaries) as Brazil's largest media group, entering radio in the 1940s and TV in the 1960s, and picking up other interests. An active supporter of the military dictatorship that lasted from 1964 to 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Correios
The Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (, abbr. ECT), also known as Correios (), is a state-owned company that has operated the national Mail, postal service of Brazil since the 17th century. The ECT created and manages the Brazilian postal code system known as Código de Endereçamento Postal. It also provides an e-commerce platform (''CorreiosNet Shopping''), banking (''Banco Postal'') acting as proxy of Banco do Brasil, Boleto bill payment collection and express mail service ''Sedex'', with its international service network reaching more than 220 countries worldwide. It is the largest employer in Brazil, with more than 109,000 employees, both internal and outsourced, and is the only company to be present in all municipalities in the country, with a wide network of owned and franchised units. The company is fully owned by the Federal government of Brazil, Federal Government of Brazil and subordinated to the Ministry of Communications (Brazil), Ministry of Communicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raul Jungmann
Raul Belens Jungmann Pinto (born 3 April 1952 in Recife) is a Brazilian business consultant and politician. He served as Ministry of Agrarian Development (Brazil), minister of agrarian development under former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso and federal deputy for the state of Pernambuco. He was the Ministry of Defence (Brazil), Minister of Defence from May 2016 to February 2018, appointed by then-acting president Michel Temer. On 27 February 2018, Jungmann was confirmed as Ministry of the Public Security (Brazil), Minister of the Public Security. He was appointed CEO of the Brazilian Mining Institute (IBRAM) in March 2022. References , - , - , - , - 1952 births Cidadania politicians Brazilian Communist Party politicians Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians Living people Politicians from Recife Government ministers of Brazil Brazilian people of German descent Defence ministers of Brazil Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Pernambuco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
