Prosecutors file new charges against Lula
Former President Lula
Federal prosecutors filed new corruption charges against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his ex-minister Gilberto Carvalho. The allegations also target five other individuals for benefiting auto companies by enacting provisional decrees.
The auto companies are believed to have pledged to pay $1.9 million to both Lula and Carvalho in exchange for advantages in the car industry.
Faced with this promise, prosecutors believe, “the public officials, in violation of their duties, benefited assembly plants MMC [Mitsubishi] and Caoa by promptly and atypically enacting Provisional Decree 471 on November 23, 2009, in strict accordance with prior arrangements, also granting the curruptors the knowledge of its draft before it was enacted and its sections numbered, after the adjustments were made as arranged.”
Ex-minister Gilberto Carvalho
In a note to the press, Lula Institute says the enactment of Provisional Decree 471/2009 fully complied with the law in its process if deliberation. The institute goes on to describe the charges as an act of persecution against the former president.
“The new charges concerning the enactment of Provisional Decree 471/2009 are not just unfounded, but also illegal and immoral. The prosecutors who penned it attempt once again to dwell upon a topic that has been the subject of criminal cases and has been brought before court for trial over a year ago,” the note reads.
Translated by Fabrício Ferreira
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