Justice grants house arrest to former Rio governor
The First Specialized Panel of the Federal Regional Court of the 2nd Region (TRF2) unanimously decided to replace former governor Sérgio Cabral's preventive detention by domicile. In the decision, the former governor must also comply with the precautionary measures for the use of electronic monitoring and prohibition of contact with investigated and defendants of Operation Lava Jato.
Cabral, however, will remain in prison for responding to four more processes in the Federal Court. This was the first decision favorable to the former governor in the second instance, which is the Regional Federal Court of Rio.
The decision was handed down at trial at the request of Sérgio Cabral's defense. The arrest was ordered under Operation Efficiency, which investigated crimes of money laundering, with the concealment of values abroad.
Cabral has been in prison since 2016 and is currently serving his sentence in the Special Prison Battalion (BEP), in Niterói , which is used to arrest military police officers who have problems with justice.
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