The former Congressman Pedro Corrêa: stuck in Lava Jet (bubniak / AGB / theskay)
The minister Luis Roberto Barroso, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) ruled that the former deputy Pedro Corrêa, former president of the Progressive Party (PP), lose the right to semi-open regime fulfilled for having been sentenced to seven years and two months in the trial of the monthly allowance.Correa was entitled to work as a doctor while serving time, but was again arrested by order of the judge Sergio Moro, responsible for the processes of Operation Lava jet, and now again sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for participating in petrolão scandal.
In practice, the regression hamper regime Pedro Corrêa get back benefits, such as outside work. For, although in the higher courts in Brasilia former deputy gets a habeas corpus to appeal for freedom against the sentence imposed by Sergio Moro, he should remain in jail because it was penalized by the regime of regression in the case of monthly allowance. Pedro Corrêa also began to testify in negotiations for a whistleblower award agreement, and regression to the closed regime should be a complicating factor in the definition of any legal advantages in Lava jet. It is that according to Law 12,850 / 2013 in the case of whistleblower signed after the sentence, the sentence could be reduced to half or admitted progression system.
In Barroso's decision over former Deputy pepista, the magistrate ruled that he should lose the benefit of the semi-open regime for committing an intentional crime in the course of criminal enforcement. A month ago the federal judge Sergio Moro Pedro Corrêa sentenced to 20 years, seven months and ten days in prison for the crimes of bribery and money laundering.
According to the indictment, Correa pocketed 11.7 million reais in bribery. In only one of 72 corrupt practices penalized for Justice, former parliamentary received 2.03 million reais. In the ruling, Live ordered the criminal confiscation of the former deputy assets until it reset to Petrobras coffers the amount of 11.7 million. Pedro Corrêa was described by prosecutors as "one responsible for the internal distribution of PP", and that he pocketed bribes for himself and his daughter, the former Mrs Aline Correa.
Monthly allowance - In the process of the monthly allowance, Pedro Corrêa admitted receiving 700,000 Real PT, but claimed that the funds were not bribes, but money to pay fees to a lawyer who defended former deputy Ronivon Santiago.
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