They had to auction photos to cover the defense costs of the former president

The judicial problems of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva begin to be felt not only on his mood and his political power, but also on his personal finances and those of the Institute that bears his name and promotes his figure.
Last Wednesday, the Lula Institute auctioned off in a São Paulo bar fifty lots of photographs offered by various professional photographers having registered the former president over the years. Each piece, reported Folha de São Paulo, contained the autograph of the author of the photo and Lula himself.
According to the newspaper, the auction has allowed the institute to cover several budgets in its budget and pay some of the defense costs of the former president.

lock In sentencing Lula, the former federal judge of Lava Jato, Sergio Moro, who left his post to occupy the post of Minister of Justice of Jair Bolsonaro, blocked all the capital of the leader of the PT: 2,3 millions of dollars in two private pension funds and just over $ 160,000 in a savings account.
Moro also prevented the former president from accessing the legacy of his wife, Marisa Leticia, who died in February 2017.
According to Folha, the Institute will now reimburse a debt it has with the company Lils Palestras, which belongs to the former president and who until now was the one who paid the fees of the lawyers who defended him in the proceedings of Lava Jato.
Lils Palestras, who organized the Lula lectures given worldwide after leaving the presidency in 2010, "no longer has any resources; all that was spent for the defense of the world. former president, said the president of the Lula Institute, Paulo Okamoto. "That's why we are studying the use of some of this money to pay lawyers and Lils."
The law prevents the Institute from paying for Lula's defense, but the company can do it. "Lils has donated enough money, about 700,000 reais, for the Lula Institute, but since the Lava Jato started, he had problems increasing contributions" among businessmen, "he added. Okamoto: According to him, Lula has already spent about five million reais, or $ 1.3 million, in his defense.
Given the lack of resources, a PT employee has settled in Curitiba, where the former president is imprisoned, to meet their needs. The main function of this collaborator is to receive e-mails from family members, friends and fellow activists of the PT leader, to print them and hand them over to the two lawyers who visit Lula daily in prison.
The former president, meanwhile, responds with handwritten letters that are given to this employee, who transcribes them in e-mails sent to their intended recipients. not