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Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:24 pm
Brazil: Magistrates allegedly conspired to prevent Lula's return
By AFP - June 10, 2019 at 04:50 (updated to 6:30)
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, January 16, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro Photo Mauro PIMENTEL. AFP
Officials of the Lava Jato anti-corruption investigation (Wash Express) have maneuvered to prevent the return of former President Lula left to power last year, reports Sunday the investigative media The Intercept, on the basis of leaks potentially explosive.
Brazil: Magistrates allegedly conspired to prevent Lula's return
The investigation site launched these accusations after having access to a large volume of private messages exchanged on Telegram between prosecutors and Judge Sergio Moro, in charge of Lava Jato, and obtained by " anonymous source ". This judge is today the Minister of Justice of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
" While they have long assured that they are apolitical and motivated solely by the fight against corruption, the prosecutors of Lava Jato have in fact plotted between them on the means to prevent the return to power of Lula and his Workers Party. Wrote The Intercept. If their veracity is established, these exchanges undermine the supposed necessary impartiality of Judge Moro, who would have provided indications and advice to the prosecutors against his pet peeve, the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whom he had condemned in first instance in 2017.
Serious doubts about Lula's guilt
Other messages also reveal that the prosecutors themselves had " serious doubts about sufficient evidence of Lula's guilt " in the matter of obtaining a triplex bribe and who has finally sent to prison, for eight years and 10 months after a recent revision of his sentence.
His conviction prevented Lula, the favorite of the voting intentions at the time, from standing in the presidential election last October. He has consistently claimed his innocence and claimed to be a victim of political machinations designed to prevent him from running for a third term after those of 2003 to 2010.
For his part, Lula's presidential candidate, Fernando Haddad, demanded a thorough investigation into what could become " the biggest institutional scandal in the history of the Republic ." If the information published by The Intercept is verified, " many will have to be imprisoned, trials should be canceled and a great farce would be disclosed to the world, " added the one who lost the presidential election in the second round against Jair Bolsonaro.
In a quick reaction, Lava Jato officials said they were " serene " in the face of accusations that they acted illegally, while lamenting that they were "the victims of the criminal action of a pirate who carried out very serious activities against the prosecution, the private life and the security of its members ". Judge Moro, for his part, " lamented the non-identification of the source [...] responsible for the criminal hacking of prosecutors ' laptops " and the fact that the site " did not come into contact (with him) before publication, which is contrary to the basic rules of journalism ". The messages illegally obtained were "taken out of context", he defends himself.
Basically, he denies any irregularity in his behavior during the sprawling investigation that has allowed to lock up hundreds of political and economic leaders in five years, in connection with a huge network of bribes around the world. Petrobras Group's public markets.
" The archives obtained by our site on Brazil are among the most important in the history of journalism, " wrote in a Tweet the co-founder of The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald.
" They contain explosive secrets in the form of cats, audios, videos, photos and other documents " about the prosecutor Lava Jato, Deltan Dallagnol, Judge Moro and "a lot of officials who continue to exercise significant political and economic influence in Brazil and other countries ". " Our reports are just beginning, " he warned.
https://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2019 ... la_1732745
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By AFP - June 10, 2019 at 04:50 (updated to 6:30)
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, January 16, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro Photo Mauro PIMENTEL. AFP
Officials of the Lava Jato anti-corruption investigation (Wash Express) have maneuvered to prevent the return of former President Lula left to power last year, reports Sunday the investigative media The Intercept, on the basis of leaks potentially explosive.
Brazil: Magistrates allegedly conspired to prevent Lula's return
The investigation site launched these accusations after having access to a large volume of private messages exchanged on Telegram between prosecutors and Judge Sergio Moro, in charge of Lava Jato, and obtained by " anonymous source ". This judge is today the Minister of Justice of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
" While they have long assured that they are apolitical and motivated solely by the fight against corruption, the prosecutors of Lava Jato have in fact plotted between them on the means to prevent the return to power of Lula and his Workers Party. Wrote The Intercept. If their veracity is established, these exchanges undermine the supposed necessary impartiality of Judge Moro, who would have provided indications and advice to the prosecutors against his pet peeve, the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whom he had condemned in first instance in 2017.
Serious doubts about Lula's guilt
Other messages also reveal that the prosecutors themselves had " serious doubts about sufficient evidence of Lula's guilt " in the matter of obtaining a triplex bribe and who has finally sent to prison, for eight years and 10 months after a recent revision of his sentence.
His conviction prevented Lula, the favorite of the voting intentions at the time, from standing in the presidential election last October. He has consistently claimed his innocence and claimed to be a victim of political machinations designed to prevent him from running for a third term after those of 2003 to 2010.
For his part, Lula's presidential candidate, Fernando Haddad, demanded a thorough investigation into what could become " the biggest institutional scandal in the history of the Republic ." If the information published by The Intercept is verified, " many will have to be imprisoned, trials should be canceled and a great farce would be disclosed to the world, " added the one who lost the presidential election in the second round against Jair Bolsonaro.
In a quick reaction, Lava Jato officials said they were " serene " in the face of accusations that they acted illegally, while lamenting that they were "the victims of the criminal action of a pirate who carried out very serious activities against the prosecution, the private life and the security of its members ". Judge Moro, for his part, " lamented the non-identification of the source [...] responsible for the criminal hacking of prosecutors ' laptops " and the fact that the site " did not come into contact (with him) before publication, which is contrary to the basic rules of journalism ". The messages illegally obtained were "taken out of context", he defends himself.
Basically, he denies any irregularity in his behavior during the sprawling investigation that has allowed to lock up hundreds of political and economic leaders in five years, in connection with a huge network of bribes around the world. Petrobras Group's public markets.
" The archives obtained by our site on Brazil are among the most important in the history of journalism, " wrote in a Tweet the co-founder of The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald.
" They contain explosive secrets in the form of cats, audios, videos, photos and other documents " about the prosecutor Lava Jato, Deltan Dallagnol, Judge Moro and "a lot of officials who continue to exercise significant political and economic influence in Brazil and other countries ". " Our reports are just beginning, " he warned.
https://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2019 ... la_1732745
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