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Attorney Cristiano Zanin Martins, one of the targets of the current Rio Jato task force, said federal judge Marcelo. Bretas, who issued search and seizure warrants against him, is linked to President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) and that the operation was intended to try to intimidate him.
The Lava Jato working group in Rio denounced today the lawyers Zanin and Roberto Teixeira, who defend former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), on suspicion of leading the fraud scheme in Sistema S and Fecomercio in Fluminenses. Bretas accepted the complaint and made them accused.
In a released statement, Zanin said that there was an abuse of authority when authorizing the “invasion” of the office and home of a lawyer with more than 20 years of career.
“Judge Marcelo Bretas is notoriously linked to President Jair Bolsonaro and his decision in the specific case is linked to the work carried out in favor of a whistleblower assisted by lawyers linked to Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. The situation speaks for itself,” he said.
Brittany He became the target of disciplinary proceedings for attending an inauguration with Jair Bolsonaro and other politicians in February. According to TRF-2 (Federal Regional Court of the 2nd Region), the disciplinary administrative process against the magistrate takes place in secret.
In the note, Zanin also stated that today’s operation “can only be understood as another clear attempt to intimidate the Brazilian State for my work as a lawyer, which has long exposed the cracks in the Justice System and the Democratic Rule of Law” . .
The lawyer stated that all the services provided to Fecomercio between 2011 and 2018 were duly documented in an auditable system. He said that there was evidence of “actual performance of the services that were contracted.” He also stated that all payments were approved by the entity’s assembly.
He argued that Fecomercio is a private entity that represents thousands of entrepreneurs and merchants in Rio. “Bretas is a federal judge and does not even have the competence to handle payments made by a private entity, such as Fecomercio,” Zanin said.
The lawyer recalls that Lava Jato, in 2016, “tried to transform the succumbing fees that our Odebrecht office received, for having won a lawsuit against the company, into suspicious amounts – and then had to admit the mistake.”
In the note, Zanin also says that that same year, Lava Jato authorized the interception of the main branch of the office to listen to conversations between lawyers and former President Lula.
“[Houve] serious attack against professional prerogatives and the right of defense. As if that were not enough, in 2018 Lava Jato released values that our office had received as fees for the provision of legal services ”, he added.
Zanin also said that “all the circumstances” of the operation “will be taken to the corresponding national and international forums so that those involved are punished and the violation of my reputation and the reputation of my position be repaired.”
Operation
In the same set of actions, called Operation And $ burn SAttorney Frederick Wassef, who has already defended the president and his son Flávio Bolsonaro, is also the target of raids and seizures.
The searches are carried out in law firms, personal addresses and companies involved in alleged fraud, which occurred from 2012 to 2018 and diverted at least R $ 151 million, according to investigations.
In total, Lava Jato denounced 26 people linked to law firms for criminal organization, fraud, corruption (active and passive), embezzlement, influence peddling and exploitation of prestige.
The investigation found that the scheme moved around R $ 355 million in contracts made with Fecomércio and paid by the S system, which includes Sesc (Social Service of Commerce) and Senac (National Service of Commercial Learning), for legal services. that would not have been done.
The office of Zanin and Teixeira received R $ 67.8 million in the investigated period.
