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According to the Federal Public Ministry (MPF), the crime involved donations from Odebrecht to the Lula Institute to disguise transfers for a total of R $ 4 million, between December 2013 and March 2014.
The complaint of two former Odebrecht executives was also accepted by federal judge Luiz Antônio Bonat, of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba, on Friday afternoon. They became defendants for the same crime.
Lula’s defense affirmed that the decision is an act of persecution and that the criminal action is inappropriate. See the full positioning at the end of the story.
The working group’s complaint was filed on September 14 of this year. Subsequently, former executives Hilberto Mascarenhas Alves da Silva Filho and Alexandrino de Salles Ramos de Alencar were denounced. The penalties provided for in the collaboration agreements have not reached the limit.
According to the decision, the complaint is based on convergent testimonies from employees of the operation, electronic messages and documents, such as spreadsheets and receipts.
Bonat pointed out that a spreadsheet apprehended with Paulo Okamotto mentions amounts requested from various contractors and has payment notes of R $ 4 million to the institute on behalf of the construction company Norberto Odebrecht.
“This evidence is sufficient, in a trial of summary knowledge, to receive the complaint, since it has a minimum of probative evidence to the detriment of the defendants named above. Deeper issues in matters of criminal responsibility require regular procedural instruction,” he said.
Cristiano Zanin Martins, defense attorney for former President Lula, said in a statement that this Friday’s decision “is one more act of persecution against former President Lula because he agreed to demand another unreasonable criminal action.”
According to the note, the complaint “seeks to transform the legal and accounted donations to the Lula Institute – which should not be confused with the person of the former president – into illicit acts, an obvious practice of the legal profession. [guerra jurídica]”.
The same decision ignores that Lula has been definitively absurd by the Brasilia Federal Court of the absurd accusation of being part of a criminal organization, in addition to ignoring the decision of the Federal Supreme Court that removed the competence to analyze the matter from the Court Federal of Curitiba. reasons, among others, the decision will be challenged by the legally applicable means “, concludes the lawyer in a note.
In a note, the Lula Institute reported that the donations “were legal, they were made through documented and accounted bank transfers, with taxes owed declared and collected. Every penny collected was spent and accounted exclusively for the Institute’s activities.”
“This institution has never been used for illegal acts, it is responsible for the collection and legacy of the government that took Brazil off the hunger map and was the setting for the development of some of the most successful public policies in the history of the country”, He said.
THE G1 try to contact the defenses of the others mentioned.
This report is being updated.
