Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
2016 Phone Calls by Lula Weaken Moro's Thesis about Ex-President
PF recorded 22 calls from former president after order to interrupt listening that revealed dialogue with Dilma in 2016
Sep.9.2019 1:54PM
Ricardo Balthazar & Felipe Bächtold, Folha
Bruna de Lara, Paula Bianchi & Leandro Demori, de The Intercept Brasil
Conversations of former President Lula (PT) recorded by the Federal Police in 2016 and kept secret ever since weaken the thesis used by today's minister Sergio Moro to justify the most controversial decision he made as head of the Car Wash Operation.
On March 16, 2016--five hours after halting the telephone tapping that he had authorized at the beginning of the operation's siege of the PT leader--Moro made public a message in which then-President Dilma Rousseff invited Lula to become the minister of the Civil House.
The disclosure led the Supreme Court to annul Lula's inauguration as minister on the eve of the opening of the impeachment process and the deposition of Dilma. For the Car Wash Operation, the phone call showed that the appointment was intended to halt investigations about him by transferring his case from Curitiba to the STF.
But unpublished records obtained by Folha and analyzed in conjunction with The Intercept Brasil indicate that other calls intercepted by the police that day, kept secret by the investigators, put in check the hypothesis adopted at the time by Moro.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/09/2016-phone-calls-by-lula-weaken-moros-thesis-about-ex-president.shtml