the former prosecutor who accused Lula was convicted of embezzling funds

the former prosecutor who accused Lula was convicted of embezzling funds

Dallagnol became famous for being the one who accused the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of commanding an illicit association for having been head of state during acts of corruption in the Petrobras company, a cause for which he was sent to prison by former judge Sérgio Moro, but the case was annulled for political manipulation, alteration of evidence and persecution .

The decision was made by the Second Chamber of the Court of Accounts of the Union and if it is ratified this month, it will mean that the former prosecutor, from the right-wing Podemos, cannot stand as a candidate for deputy in the elections on October 2.

Accounting Judge Bruno Dantas was supported by the rest of his colleagues to convict three of the main accusers of Operation Lava Jato for having used public money for their own benefit or without responsibility.

The decision also reached Janot, chief prosecutor from 2013 to 2019 who became famous for indicting the former president Michel Temer and say that he wanted to shoot Judge Gilmar Mendes, of the Federal Supreme Court, during a hearing, for questioning the actions of the entire Lava Jato Operation in the search for rewarded denunciations.

The sentence also reached a third member of the Public Ministry, the former prosecutor of the city of Curitiba Joao Romao, who was the one who authorized the expenses of the Lava Jato prosecutors.

A hacker, key in the accusation

Dallagnol is the axis of the leaks obtained by a hacker in which it was determined that the y Moor For example, they made agreements behind the back of Lula’s defense to hide evidence and procedures.

These leaks obtained by the Federal police are in a process that was key code for the annulment of the convictions of Lula, who spent 580 days in prison by order of Moro based on the accusation of Dallagnol at the headquarters of the Federal Police of Curitiba, state of Paraná, accusations that were later annulled by the Supreme Court of Justice.

Dallagnol announced that will appeal the sentence but this must be reviewed by the same high court of accounts, which may cost him not to be a candidate this year.

The former prosecutor was removed from Lava Jato after the scandal and finally resigned from public service to devote himself to party politics within the right.

According to the sentence, the prosecutors implemented a routine of current and travel expenses that allowed the prosecutors to double their salaries.

The modus operandi of Dallagnol and Janot was to choose prosecutors in various places in Brazil to move to work in Curitiba and thus increase the budget of Operation Lava Jato, which managed to dismantle the bribery network of construction companies to officials of the state-owned Petrobras in exchange for premium prices in contracts.

Source: Ambito

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