PIXULECO - Federal Police opede the Supreme Court to hear the former president Lula the investigation petrolão(Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters)
Operation Lava jet Federal Police have never been so close to the former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Document signed by the delegate Josélio Azevedo Sousa asks the Supreme Court (STF) that the former president be heard in the investigation of the armed propinoduto to assault Petrobras.
According to the document, the former president may have been "benefited from the ongoing scheme at Petrobras, obtaining benefits for himself, for his party, the PT, or even for your government." The request of the Federal Police is partly supported in the testimonies of the money changer Alberto Youssef, the former director of Petrobras Supply Paulo Roberto Costa and former manager of the State Engineering Peter Barusco. The first step of the Supreme will now submit the application to the analysis of the Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot.
Besides Lula, the federal police asks to be heard, among others, former presidents of Petrobras Jose Sergio Gabrielli and José Eduardo Dutra, the former treasurer of Rousseff's campaign in 2010 José de Filippi Junior, former ministers Ideli Salvatti, Gilberto Carvalho and former chief of staff Jose Dirceu, himself one of those arrested in Operation Lava jet. In the case of Gabrielli, the PF goes on to say that "it is unlikely that a scheme of this magnitude worked without the knowledge and consent of the Head of the company."
The request for the PT to be heard is part of one such survey of Operation Lava jet that are investigated, among others, the President of the Senate, Renan Calheiros (PMDB-AL), Senator Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI), the former treasurer of the PT João Vaccari Neto and parliamentarians.
"Aware of the political aspect of the events, this research can not avoid bringing to light the determination of the facts the person of President of the Republic Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who, in the most representative status in the country, may have been benefited the scheme under way at Petrobras, obtaining benefits for himself, for his party, the PT, or even to his government, with the maintenance of a party support base sustained at the expense of illegal business in that state, "says the PF.
'They knew' - To support the request, the delegate cites the plea bargaining where the money changer Alberto Youssef confirms that Lula and members of the Presidential Palace were aware of the criminal petrolão scheme. The content of this denunciation was revealed by SEE. "This research may not be dissociated from the factual reality that it seeks to clarify and, in this case, the facts show that the scheme for now clears is, above all, a political power scheme fed with vast resources of the largest in Brazil, "added the police.
According to investigators, the testimony could clarify points such as nine ministers and the rule of former ministers are discussed or investigated as direct corruption scheme and how the federal government beneficiaries named directors to state oil "in exchange for political support" . "In this factual scenario, it is necessary to bring the case then the statements the highest representative of the nation, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in order to present their version of the investigated facts, reaching the party political core of his government "says the PF.
In the survey, the delegate does not cite a specific line for Lula's testimony. Meanwhile, the former president is under investigation by the public prosecutor to investigate his relationship with Odebrecht construction company and investigate the possible practice of influence peddling in favor of the company, between 2011 and 2014. For the MP, we need to determine the performance Lula in lending by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and the context in which the PT traveled at the expense of companies to negotiate contracts abroad.
The name of the former president was also related to petrolão because of two companies linked to him had received between 2011 and 2013, 4.53 million reais the contractor Camargo Corrêa, giant construction and one of the targets of Operation Lava jet. Report of the Federal Police records that the contractor paid three installments of $ 1 million each to the Lula Institute between December 2011 and December 2013 and over 1.527 million reais for the LILS Lectures Events and Publicity, also the PT, between September 2011 and July 2013. According to a survey done by the Federal Police in the accounts of Camargo Corrêa, researchers working in Lava Jet able to map impressive 183.79 million reais in donations "of a political nature," between 2008 and 2013, and transfers the parties politicians and candidates from various legends.
Dilma - In order that formalizes request for Lula to be heard, the Federal Police says President Dilma Rousseff, who held the Minister of Mines positions and Energy and President of the Board of Directors of Petrobras, can not be investigated under the Lava jet. Paragraph 4 of article 86 of the constitution prohibits a president is held responsible, while in office, for acts that do not concern the exercise of their functions. That is why. Experts estimate that, as suspected irregularities in the purchase of the Pasadena refinery, for example, occurred before the first term of Dilma in front of the Presidential Palace, the Attorney General Rodrigo Janot can not now make a request for investigation against her.
