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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expresses himself at a meeting with artisans and intellectuals on January 18, 2018 in Sao Paulo. The decision of a court of appeal in a corruption case will probably decide whether Lula will run for president again this year or not. He currently leads the investigations. (AP Photo / Andre Penner)
The former Brazilian president incarcerated for corruption since April, was released today from one of the seven pending cases, after being acquitted during a trial. who was accused of obstruction of justice
The acquittal in this case was expected, especially after, last September, the prosecutor's office ruled on the innocence of Lula in relation to the charge of obstructing justice in a case related to the scandals of Petrobras
The charges were made on the basis of statements made by the former Senator Delcídio do Amaral, of the same workers party (PT) founded by Lula, and argues that the former president had ordered the bribing of a former director of Petrobras who helped the courts to discover the scandals in the oil company.
Judge Ricardo Leite, of the Federal Court of Brasilia followed the same line of the Office of the Prosecutor and considered today that, in this case, there was no "documentary evidence" against Lula or the other six involved, including the ex-senator himself
. Lula of the prison, where he is detained since April 7 after being sentenced to twelve years by a collegiate court, which ratified and extended the nine years that he had applied in the judge Trial Sergio Moro, accused by the PT of maintaining a "political persecution" against the exmandatario.
The defense of Lula took advantage of today's punishment to return to disqualify Moro, who sentenced Lula to a trial where he was found guilty to have received from a company, in exchange for political favors, a three-story apartment on a beach on the coast of Sao Paulo.
"] The sentence of acquittal The fact that Lula was sentenced on that date further proves the illegitimacy of the decisions that sentenced him in the case of the triplex ", said the lawyer of the former president, Cristiano Zanin Martins
. Brasilia was "impartial", in contrast to the performance attributed to Moro, who insists that he pronounced a sentence when the alleged responsibility of Lula was not proven.
Despite the good news that he received today, Lula still has a long way to go before the courts, in which, in addition to trying to overthrow in higher instances the decision that holds him in prison, he faces six other criminal cases.
Alleged maneuvers in favor of Odebrecht in Angola, another for a country house that would also have received for "favors" make power to a construction company and a third for a neighbor of attic to his L & Esidencia and the land for the Lula Institute.
The other two refer to the alleged bribes received from the auto sector by decrees that he signed while he was still in government and who granted huge tax benefits to this industry. the Swedish company Saab in a call for tenders for the purchase of 36 fighter jets intended for the air force.
Also in the courts, in the coming months Lula will play his last letters in his efforts to be a presidential candidate for the October 7 elections.
Although it is practically disqualified by norms that veto the participation in the election of convicts in the second instance, as is the case, Lula has already been proclaimed PT candidate for
However, the last word will be the electoral justice, which can only be pronounced as from August 15, when Lula.
Still in prison, until now the exmandatario runs all the polls in which his name is included among the possible candidates, which gave the PT strength to insist on the fact that his current status as a prisoner responds to alleged "elite" maneuvers to prevent him from returning to rule the country. EFE
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