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Former federal deputy Eduardo Cunha had his retirement in Alerj (Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro) dismissed by the Fluminense Justice, due to administrative irregularity practiced while he was still a state deputy, between 2001 and 2002. The decision was made by the 18th Civil Chamber of the TJ. -RJ (Rio Court of Justice).
Yesterday, Cunha was sentenced to 15 years in prison for passive corruption and money laundering in the framework of Operation Lava Jato in Curitiba. The conviction came from the accusation of receiving bribes from the former president of the Chamber of Deputies in Petrobras’ contracts with a shipyard.
Detained since October 2016 for a previous conviction in Lava Jato, Cunha was tried by the Rio de Janeiro court at the request of a public civil action filed by the MP-RJ (Rio Prosecutor’s Office). The former congressman was convicted of presenting a patrimonial evolution incompatible with his income while he was a state deputy.
The decision reported by Judge Mauricio Caldas Lopes on August 26 was taken unanimously by the judging magistrates.
“The judges of this atrocious 18 Civil Chamber of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice agree, by unanimous vote, to dismiss the appeal of the defendant and partially grant that of the plaintiff, with a view to also applying the defendant Eduardo Cosentino Cunha the sanction of revocation of his state retirement ”, reads an extract of the decision.
After spending more than two and a half years in prison in Curitiba, Cunha was transferred in May last year to Rio, where he is serving a sentence at the Pedrolino Werling de Oliveira Public Prison, known as Bangu 8.
