Prosecutors Hid Evidence to Keep Lula From Becoming Minister in 2016
Published 8 September 2019 (1 hours 54 minutes ago)
The leaked conversation shows that prosecutors did not deliver all audios to the press, but only those who corroborated their thesis, and hid those in which Lula da Silva said he didn’t want to use the position to get rid the investigation.
New leaked chats between Brazil’s chief prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol in the Lava Jato case and other federal servants show that the prosecution deliberately released selected audios that only served to reinforce the hypothesis that Lula da Silva had accepted a cabinet position in Dilma Rousseff’s administration to obstruct justice, omitting other audios that proved the contrary.
The report was released Sunday by Folha de São Paulo and The Intercept Brazil, as part of an ongoing investigation that proves the illegality and political motivations behind Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) task force against Lula and the Worker’s Party (PT).
Sunday’s leaks show that the Lava Jato prosecutors, after illegally tapping telephone conversations between then-president Dilma Rousseff and Lula in 2016, hand-picked audios and delivered them to the press to give the impression that Dilma was trying to use the appointment of Lula as Chief of Staff, and thus the special legal jurisdiction gained, as a shield against investigations of Lava Jato.
In the conversations, Dallagnol arranges with prosecutors Carlos Fernando Santos, Paulo Roberto Galvão, and with a Federal Police agent Igor Romario de Paula on how audios should be delivered to journalists from Globo TV, and the “right” time to be shown on the evening prime time news.
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