Former minister Geddel Vieira Lima transferred to penitentiary in Brasília
Arrested in Bahia on Monday afternoon (July 3) and taken to the Federal Police Superintendency building in Brasília early on Tuesday morning (4), former minister Geddel Vieira Lima was later transferred to the Papuda Penitentiary Complex in Brasília.
According to the press office of the Undersecretary of the Federal District Penitentiary System, Vieira Lima will share a cell with another nine inmates in the Temporary Detention Center ward for university degree-holding prisoners.
Vieira Lima is a politician from Bahia who served as minister under the administrations of President Michel Temer and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Sílva and as a C-level executive at the federal savings bank (Caixa Econômica Federal) during former president Dilma Rousseff's first term. He was ordered to jail by Federal Police and members of the Greenfield Task Force, an investigation into reckless and fraudulent management in some of the country's biggest pension funds, including FUNCEF, Petros, Previ, and Postalis, launched in September 2016.
In its request to arrest him, the Federal Prosecution Service accused him of trying to interfere with the investigation of alleged wrongdoing in the release of funds from Caixa.
Translated by Mayra Borges
Fonte: Former minister Geddel Vieira Lima transferred to penitentiary in Brasília
