Supreme Court Justice criticizes "spectacle" for Lula's complaint
Justice Teori Zavascki 
When denying the appeal filed by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Supreme Court (STF) Justice Teori Zavascki criticized on Tuesday (Oct. 4) the operation carried out by the Federal Prosecution Service (MPF) when they filed the complaint against Lula. During the session that considered Lula's defese's appeal, Zavascki said that they made a "spectacle" of the episode.
"News reported a criminal organization of which Lula was considered the mastermind, suggesting that this criminal organization was under investigation. But what was effectively offered as the object of complaint was nothing like that," said the justice.
Despite criticizing the MPF's operation, the justice has denied the appeal filed by the former president's defense which asked to suspend the investigations against him under deliberation in Curitiba, in the hands of federal judge Sergio Moro, from the Paraná Federal Court, and requested the case to be sent to the Supreme Court.
The defense questions Moro's competence to conduct three investigations against the former president within Operation Car Wash and claims that the facts investigated are the same probed by the Supreme Court in another case against Lula.
However, Zavascki noted that the Supreme Court determined that people who have jurisdictional prerrogative would be solely tried at the Supreme Court, as established by the Constitution.
Translated by Amarílis Anchieta
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