Brazilian justice has filed three actions against Lula da Silva that link him to suspicious donations from Odebrecht. (EFE)

There Supreme Court of Brazil filed this Saturday three lawsuits against the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as part of anti-corruption operations Lava Jato and Zealots and that they have been suspended in court.

The magistrate Ricardo Lewandowskiof Federal Supreme Court (STF), decided “to prohibit and close” the actions that linked the manager to suspicious donations from the former construction company Odebrecht at the Lula Institute and the suspicious purchase of the headquarters.

The other action concerned irregularities in purchase of Swedish fighter jets under the government of the former president Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) and in which Lula would have intervened.

The first two actions have been suspended September 2021 and the third, for purchase of the F-39 fighter-bombers from the Swedish manufacturer Gripenc, was also suspended in March last year.

For Lewandowskiquoted by the State Information Service Brazil Agency, the evidence in the actions was unlawful and “lack of minimal verification”.

Judge Ricardo Lewandowski decided to
Judge Ricardo Lewandowski decided to “prohibit and close” the actions that linked the president to the suspicious donations of the former construction company Odebrecht to the Lula Institute and the suspicious purchase of the headquarters.

“These are, in fact, charges based on tainted evidence, which was produced, kept and used illegally and illegitimately, which shows the absence of just cause for their prosecution,” he added.

The actions were included in the agreement with the Justice led by Odebrechtone of the target companies of the Operation Lava Jatowho discovered a millionaire public money embezzlement plan, mainly from the oil company Petrobrasto favor several politicians.

In August of last year, Lula da Silva recognized that although under his previous government”can’t say there was no corruptionhe pointed out that it “only appears when you authorize the survey”.

“If someone is wrong, someone commits a crime, they are investigated, prosecuted, convicted or acquitted and the problem is solved“, expressed Lula da Silva, who also denounced at the time that in the last five years he had been “massacred”.

Lula da Silva acknowledged that although under his previous government
Lula da Silva acknowledged that although under his previous government “he could not say that there was no corruption”, he stressed that it “only appears when you allow it to do the subject of an investigation”. (Reuters)

“What was Lava Jato’s mistake? Well, he took a tricky political path. Lava Jato went beyond the limits of investigation and entered those of politics. The objective was to convict Lula,” the Brazilian president said of the corruption case that led to his entry into prison, even though it lasted barely a year, the time it took him to get out of it after checking the malpractice of justice.

Lula da Silva also regretted that Brazil had moved from this healthy polarization represented by the Workers’ Party (PT) and the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB) to the “incitement to hatred” represented by the former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

(With information from EFE and Europa Press)

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