Edson Ribeiro, lawyer Nestor Cervero, was in America when the order for his arrest was decreed by the Supreme Court (STF)
The lawyer Edson Ribeiro, defending the former director Nestor Cervero Petrobras, was arrested early on Friday by federal police after arriving at Tom Jobim International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, according to the news program Good Morning Brazil, the TV Globo. Ribeiro was in Miami, in the United States, where the Federal Supreme Court (STF) issued a warrant for his arrest on Tuesday. The lawyer is accused of trying to obstruct the investigation of Operation Lava Jet when trying to buy the silence of the former head of state and plan their escape, along with Senator Delcídio Amaral (PT-MS) and the chief of staff of the parliamentary Diogo Ferreira - both are already arrested on Wednesday.
Ribeiro came to be located in the United States in the very fourth, but could not be arrested because, according to PF, there were still be forwarded to the US court some documents. On the night of Wednesday, the Supreme authorized the inclusion of Ribeiro's name in red alert list of Interpol - he shared the webpage of international police with the two terrorists convicted of participating in the attacks in Paris. The decision was sent to the police on Thursday.
In a conversation recorded by the son of the former head of Petrobras, Bernard Ribeiro and Delcídio were caught trying means to put the former head outside Brazil, thus preventing him what he knew about the petrolão scheme investigators. The two also negotiating the payment of an allowance to the family Cerveró to try to dissuade him not to make an award-winning snitching agreement.
The Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot, described the meeting as typical of mobsters. As the lawyer was in the United States since last week, it was not considered a fugitive by the feds.
(From the Newsroom)
