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According to the STJ minister, Cristiane Brasil’s defense did not prove that there was an irregularity in the prison. With that, Paciornik affirmed that the request for release should be analyzed by the Fifth Panel of the Court.
Cristiane Brasil is a candidate for mayor of Rio for the PTB and turned herself in to the police on the 11th, after being the target of Operation Catarata, which investigates alleged deviations in social assistance contracts in the state government and in the City Council of River.
He is responsible for acts allegedly practiced between May 2013 and May 2017, when he assumed the municipal secretariats under the direction of Eduardo Paes and Marcelo Crivella.
Former federal deputy Cristiane Brasil surrenders to the police in Rio
According to the investigations, Cristiane Brasil received bribes in three ways: in cash, through deposits in other people’s accounts, which returned the values to the former deputy and also through the payment of personal bills.
When deciding to maintain preventive detention in Cristiane Brazil, the Rio de Janeiro court stated that “there seems to be a robust superficial probative panorama that the patient exerted political pressure to obtain income from the cartelized contracts, and, as the holder of the position municipal secretary and federal deputy to guarantee the success of the criminal enterprise ”.
In the decision that upheld the prison, the STJ minister stated that it is not possible to identify the illegal coercion indicated by the defense with the arrest warrant.
“Having verified the extensive and forceful reasoning brought in the decision that maintained the preventive detention of the patient, in a superficial analysis I do not verify the existence of teratology capable of justifying her removal,” he wrote.
The day she presented herself to the police, the former congresswoman recorded a video saying that she believes in the work of justice.
“It is absurd that an old complaint from 2012, 2013 is being carried out now. A preventive arrest warrant against me missing election days. This is a time when my candidacy is getting stronger. I think I have a political interest in these events that My conscience is clear that justice will be done and the facts will be clarified in my favor, “said Cristiane.
