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The former Minister of Finance and Civil House, Antonio Palocci, said today (6), in Federal District Court, that the son of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Luiz Claudio, had received lobbyist funds involved in the development of the provisional measure 471/2009, subject of a criminal action under the operation Zelotes
According to Palocci, Lula's son l & rsquo; Would have sought during his consultation in São Paulo between the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, to help him get at least R $ 2 million of companies to make possible one of its companies.
According to the complaint of the Federal Prosecution, Marcondes represented the Lula government in favor of the drafting of the MP 471, which granted tax benefits to car manufacturers, who, in return, would have paid a bribe. wine for the text to be published.
Palocci asked Lula in 2014, about a month after meeting with Luiz Claudio, to talk about the son's request of the former president. The meeting would have taken place at the Lula Institute of São Paulo
"I went to talk to the former President Lula because I wanted to see him allow me to do it [obter recursos para seu filho]. There is where the former president said that he was not obliged to attend Luiz Claudio because "I've already solved this problem with Mauro Marcondes".
Tax Advantages
In 2013, the tax benefits were renewed by the then President Dilma Rousseff of the new MP According to Palocci, former President Lula confirmed that he had negotiated with the automakers so that the two deputies of 2009 and 2013 would be approved.The negotiations would have taken place with the intermediation of Marcondes, which, according to the former finance minister, would have an "unlimited" access in Lula
Palocci however indicated that he could not confirm the transfer of resources of the manufacturer s cars to Luiz Cláudio, who is not charged with criminal proceedings concerning the proceedings of MP 471/2009. The former minister also said that he had no direct knowledge of the performance of Marcondes in drafting the interim measure.
The former finance minister testified before the deputy judge Ricardo Soares Leite, a judge of the 10th Federal Court of Brasilia, in one of the four criminal actions brought by Lula responds to the Federal Court in the Federal District.
From the beginning of the hearing, the attorney Cristiano Zanin Martins, who represents Lula, tried to find a suspended testimony of Palocci, alleging that he had reached an award-winning agreement regarding of other actions and to which the defense did not have access, thus constituting a witness interested in incriminating Lula in exchange for legal advantages granted by the prosecutor's office
Zanin's request was reinforced by the defenses of all the other defendants, but Judge Soares Leite did not grant it. The prosecutor in charge of the case, Fernando Paiva, argued that the Zelotes operation did not participate in the Palocci charge, which had been signed during negotiations with the Federal Police of Paraná, under the responsibility of Lava Jato.
Fazenda between January 2003 and March 2006 in the Lula government and the Civil House between January and July 2011 in the Dilma government.
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