Lula receives money from Odebrecht's tip, says Palocci in donation | Paraná

"It is also recalled that, among the resources in kind received from ODEBRECHT and withdrawn by Branislav Kontic, he took advantage of various opportunities of about 30, 40, 50 and 80,000 reais in kind for Lula himself. same, "says an excerpt from the statement. .

The information is in the collaboration agreement number 5 of the first letter dated between Palocci and the federal police of Curitiba, which was approved by the Federal Regional Court of the 4th region (TRF4). The petition was made on April 13, 2018 in the Curitiba PF, but the testimony was attached Thursday (17) to the PF investigation on the Belo Monte plant, which is treated secretly.

Asked about the existence of witnesses of Lula's money, Palocci stated that he had given R $ 50,000 to the former president, inside the company. 39, a telephone booth, at the aeronautical terminal of Brasilia (DF), during the 2010 campaign in front of a driver of the former Minister Claudio Souza Gouveia.

"In São Paulo, he remembers an episode during which he had brought money in kind to Lula in a whiskey box up to Congonhas airport , namely that he was constantly receiving phone calls from Lula charging for delivery, "says an excerpt from the statement.

According to Palocci, the driver Carlos Pocente, witness to the incident of the former president, went on the way to the airport and even joked that any Lula's charge concerned only the bottle of whiskey.

In response, Palocci said that "it was obvious that the insistence of Lula was not for drinking, but for money, that the driver told the collaborator who was joking and who knew that it was money.

G1 asked for the defense of former President Lula and is waiting for a position.

Two drivers who worked with former Minister Palocci were also heard by the PF as witnesses, last August, during the investigation of the Belo Monte plant.

Claudio Souza Gouveia said in a testimony to the PF that he had several times brought Palocci to the aeronautical terminal of Brasilia to bring gifts and other objects to Lula.

Gouveia recalled that among those present were whiskey cases , cell phones and pens, delivered by Palocci, who came back A few minutes later, however, the driver stated that he had never known that the boxes contained the products.

He also stated that he saw the former minister carrying large sums of money. Palocci would have sometimes said that it was a document, but he made a gesture with his fingers to indicate that it was money.

And the driver Carlos Alberto Pocente told that he remembered an episode among people involved in the money, in which Palocci was in a hurry to bring a box of whiskey in Lula, at the Congonhas Airport (SP).

According to Pocente, the former minister was in a hurry to make these trips.