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SAO PAULO – Seven members of the Lava Jato working group in São Paulo asked the Attorney General, Augusto Aras, to abandon the operation.
In the document, the prosecutors point out that there are “insoluble incompatibilities” with the natural prosecutor in the Lava Jato cases, Viviane de Oliveira Martínez, who took office in March and was the head of the other prosecutors.
However, the other members affirm that Viviane did not want to act in the Lava-Jato cases and left the coordination of the group under the tutelage of the lawyer Janice Ascari, who, in practice, became responsible for the investigations.
In a letter to the PGR, the prosecutors allege that Viviane was excluded from her duties and never participated in any judicial hearing of the working group, nor in a single office with judges to attend the cases and promote the progress of the operation.
In addition, MPF members maintain that Viviane has come to adopt the understanding that several of the ongoing investigations in São Paulo should not be processed in the state. For the group, the position of chief made the job unfeasible.
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“Part of the cases that were being handled are available to adopt definitive measures, and to request, for this, that the effect of the termination now requested be initiated from the dates described below,” says the document signed by the group coordinator Janice Ascari and six other prosecutors.
Among them are prosecutors Thiago Lacerda Nobre, Guilherme Rocha Göpfert, Paloma Alves Ramos, Marília Soares Ferreira Iftim, Paulo Sérgio Ferreira Filho and Yuri Corrêa da Luz.
The group’s departure comes a day after the coordinator of the working group in Paraná, Deltan Dallagnol, announced his departure from the operation. Dallagnol said his departure was due to the health problems of his one-year-old daughter, who will undergo tests and medical treatment. He will be replaced by Alessandro José Fernandes de Oliveira, who is currently part of the Lava Jato working group of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and who has a more discreet and moderate profile.
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On the last day 4, the Department of Internal Affairs of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) ordered an investigation to investigate whether there was an irregularity in the distribution of the investigations carried out by members of the São Paulo group. The suspicion is that there was a breach of the rules for choosing those responsible for carrying out the investigations.
At Lava Jato in São Paulo, important works, such as the ring road and the subway, are being investigated during the Tucana governments. In addition to the Serra governments, the Public Ministry also targets the administrations of Geraldo Alckmin and the relatives of former presidents Lula (PT) and Michel Temer (MDB). Lula and Temer have also been the subject of complaints.
However, the progress of all investigations has always met with a lack of structure. In addition to not having a single judge to expedite the process, the group has always suffered a constant drop in the number of lawyers, most of whom never had exclusive dedication and had to accumulate complex cases such as those of Lava-Jato, with other procedures from your source.
In addition, the São Paulo task force accumulated recent defeats in the investigations against Senator José Serra (PSDB). In a decision last week, Minister Gilmar Mendes extended a precautionary measure granted by the president of the Supreme Federal Court, Minister Dias Toffoli, and suspended the criminal action against Serra on the charge of receiving bribes from Odebrecht.
