Key Witness in 'Operation Car Wash' Case Was Forced to Testify Against Lula: Leaks
Key Witness in 'Operation Car Wash' Case Was Forced to Testify Against Lula: Leaks
Key witness in Lula’s case was forced to testify against Lula in exchange of reduced prison time. | Photo: Reuters
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Published 1 July 2019 (12 hours 50 minutes ago)
In his first two testimonies, the witness had not implicated Lula. However, in the third, he was forced to change the discourse in return of reduced prison time.
One of the key witnesses in the case of Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was forced by prosecutors to testify against him, despite not implicating Lula in his earlier testimonies, in return for judicial leniency, a report published Sunday by The Intercept and local media Folha de Sao Paulo.
Businessman Leo Pinheiro, the main shareholder of the OAS construction company and key witness of the case against Lula, was blackmailed by the prosecutors of the Operation Lava Jato in exchange of reduced sentence.
In his first two testimonies, the witness had not implicated Lula. However, in the third, he was forced to change the discourse.
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Businessman Leo Pinheiro, the main shareholder of the OAS
construction company and key witness of the case against Lula
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Google translation:
Moro and son-in-law of Léo Pinheiro are rewarded by Bolsonaro
In addition to the former judge, who interfered in the elections and became justice minister, Caixa's new president is familiar with the main informant and the only source used to incriminate Lula
08/01/2019 16h49 - updated at 19h26
Although he insists on trying to convince the population that he has set up his team based on technical criteria, it is increasingly clear that the Bolsonaro government has taken out some debts and given approval for the nomination of characters who were decisive in preventing Lula from contesting the elections and pave the way for victory in the election - also with substantial help from fake news .
In addition to former judge Sérgio Moro , who was responsible for the ex-president's conviction without evidence, the executive's representative took charge of banker Pedro Guimarães, Léo Pinheiro's son-in-law, who became the sole source of complaint against the former president - although he has not been able to prove anything he told PF.
The presence of Moro and Guimarães widened the promiscuity between the current government and the killers of Lula , the victim of an unfair process that had, among other objectives, prevented him from disputing (and winning) the presidential elections of 2018.
Understand who is who:
Sérgio Moro
The formalization of Judge Sérgio Moro 's entry into politics and the revelation of conversations he maintained during the presidential campaign at the top of the president-elect's campaign is the final proof that Lula was tried, convicted and taken to political prison without having committed crime, with the clear objective of getting him out of the electoral process - from which he would win first round according to all polls.
"The appointment of Moro seems to confirm the allegations of the Workers' Party that the reasons the judge arrested Lula were more political than judicial. Whether this is true or not, Moro's new job is only the most dramatic example of an increasingly activist judiciary playing a political role in Latin America, "the Economist magazine quoted in an article .
Even before the condemnation, however, Moro's partiality was already flagrant. In 2014, in the dispute between President Dilma Rousseff and Aécio Neves , the judge leaked phone calls from a conversation with the former President Lula, violating the Federal Constitution .
Pedro Guimarães
It is difficult to imagine that the appointment of Pedro Guimarães, held on Monday (7), for the presidency of the Federal Savings Bank was totally exempt, since the banker is the son-in-law of businessman Leo Pinheiro , former executive of OAS and , overnight, modified his testimony to incriminate former President Lula in the action of the triplex of Guarujá.
Pinheiro was arrested through investigations by Lava Jato on charges of paying bribes to politicians in exchange for favors for his contractor, but secured freedom after closing the award-winning accords to incriminate Lula.
The indictment was that the apartment would be a reward for Lula's granting benefits to the OAS in his administration, but there is no evidence that the PT had actually received the property or that it owned it. So much so that the apartment, after the arrest of Lula, was auctioned to pay debts of the OAS itself - which would prove that the contractor is the real owner of the property that took the former president to jail.
https://pt.org.br/moro-e-genro-de-leo-pinheiro-sao-recompensados-por-bolsonaro/