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Judge Diego Paes Moreira, of the VI Federal Criminal Court of São Paulo, closed an open investigation against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and his son, Luís Cláudio, based on the Odebrecht erasures. The magistrate pointed out in the office last Monday (7), that insufficient evidence was presented of the crimes charged to the PT in the case. Lula and Luís Cláudio were indicted in March of last year for money laundering and influence peddling for alleged payments by Odebrecht to the sports company Touchdown, owned by the PT’s son, in 2011. The investigations began with the complaints from Emílio Odebrecht and Alexandrino Alencar. .
The businessmen reported that, in exchange for influence in the federal government, the contractor would invest in Luís Cláudio’s projects. PF stated that Touchdown would have received R $ 10 million in some years “despite its capital stock of R $ 1,000”. The “exchange of favors”, however, would not have been sufficiently documented, according to Justice. In the order, Judge Moreira stated that the alleged corruption could not be configured, since Lula was no longer president at the time of the events, the PT left the presidency in 2010.
Furthermore, the allegation that Lula acted to mediate in Odebrecht’s relations with the Dilma government would also be “generic,” according to the judge. The judge’s position followed a statement from the Federal Public Ministry, which requested that the case be closed. For the Public Ministry, although the facts are “ethically reprehensible” and correspond to a way of selling political influence, “it is not enough for the penal configuration.”
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