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In the largest charge ever made in Brazil against the defense, the judge Marcelo bretas, of the 7th Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro, ordered the execution of 50 search warrants and seizure at the home of lawyers, this Wednesday (9/9). The ship is based on the complaint of the former president of Fecomercio do Rio de Janeiro, Orlando diniz.
The businessman has already been arrested twice and had been trying to reach a plea deal since 2018, which was only approved, according to the magazine. Hour, after he agreed to charge large law firms. In exchange for the complaint, Diniz wins freedom and the right to keep around US $ 1 million deposited abroad.
According to the Federal Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro, the orders are being executed in the Federal District, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Alagoas, Ceará and Pernambuco, in collaboration with the Federal Police and the Federal Revenue Service.
In the request addressed to Judge Marcelo Bretas, the MPF listed 77 addresses of offices, companies and law firms, for individual search warrants to be issued.
The Rio MPF tried to justify the attack against legal professionals by stating that the payments made by Fecomércio to the offices coincided with “acquisitions of cars and luxury properties in the country.” The events narrated by the MPF would have occurred between 2012 and 2018.
“The contributions in favor of the offices linked to the accused were contemporaneous with the acquisition of cars and luxury properties in the country and abroad, to the direct detriment of the investment in the quality of life and in the learning and professional development of trade workers in the state of Rio de Janeiro, a finalist activity of great social relevance from the parastatals ”, state prosecutors in Rio say.
“The MPF ensures absolute respect for legal activity, essential for the judicial function, in accordance with the constitutional provision. It does not penalize it, but it does charge crimes against people who have abused their professional status. The MPF is also exercising its constitutionally foreseen functional activity ”, they complete.
Among the objectives of the court orders, according to leaf is he G1 They are Cristiano Zanin and Roberto Teixeira, defenders of Lula, and Frederick Wassef, former lawyer of President Jair Bolsonaro. The signatures of former STJ minister César Asfor Rocha and his son Caio Rocha are also sought; the lawyers Eduardo Martins, son of Humberto Martins, and Tiago Cedraz, son of Aroldo Cedraz, from TCU.
In a note, Cristiano Zanin described the nature of the decision as “unreasonable and illegal” authorizing searches at the lawyer’s home and office, and said that Bretas’ decision is an attack on the defense and retaliation for its work exposing the abuses of the “car wash”. .
Criminal action
According to the MPF, in parallel to the execution of the arrest warrants, there is a new criminal action, The 510-page complaint is based on an award from Orlando Diniz, former president of Fecomércio, Sesc Rio and Senac Rio. Río de Janeiro, based on the word of Diniz, obtained the violations of telephone, telematic, fiscal and banking secrecy of several investigated.
The MPF claims to have identified, among Fecomércio’s expenses of R $ 355 million with legal services, that R $ 151 million would have been diverted to obtain “facilities” in ongoing processes in the Fiscal Council of Sesc Nacional, TCU and the Judicial Power . .
11 people were denounced by a criminal organization. Judge Marcelo Bretas accepted the complaint. Lawyers Roberto Teixeira, Cristiano Zanin, Fernando Hargreaves, Vladimir Spíndola, Ana Tereza Basílio (Vice President of OAB-RJ) and Eduardo Martins became indicted, as well as Marcelo Almeida, José Roberto Sampaio, Sérgio Cabral and Adriana Ancelmo.
Click here to read Bretas’ decision to accept a complaint
Process 5053463-93.2020.4.02.5101
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