The engineer Araripe Celso de Oliveira, suspected of involvement in the corruption scheme investigated by Operation Lava jet, during the hearing of Petrobras CPI
Judge Sergio Moro, the 13th Federal Court in Curitiba, ruled on Friday that former manager Celso Araripe Petrobras is set free. Araripe is suspected of having received 3 million reais in bribes to facilitate the approval of additives in contracts for the construction of the headquarters in the state in Vitória (ES). He was remanded in custody and will now have to comply with alternatives to detention, such as getting banned from leaving the country or change of address without permission.
The Moro judge made the decision to revoke the arrest of the former head of Petrobras after the defense has submitted justifications for the millions of reais carried over by the account of the accused.According to the whistleblowers Dalton Avancini and Eduardo Leite, linked to the construction company Camargo Correa, the company Freitas Son Construction Ltd. was used as the channel for the payment of blood money after the OCCH consortium formed by Odebrecht, Camargo Correa and Hochtief Brazil, have subcontracted the services of Freitas Filho company Petrobras in the building works in Victoria. But lawyers for Araripe claim that the amount passed on to the company are not bribes, but from the sale of a property by the former manager of the company amounting to 1.35 million reais.
In its order, Moro said the version of the defense of the former manager of Petrobras presents "inconsistencies" and "blind spots", but found that the prison could be revoked "on the presentation of a possible lawful cause for transfers between Freitas son / SulBrasil and Celso Araripe ".
