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Published: Wednesday, 12 June 2019 07:44

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Photo: RHCBrasilia, June 12. - The Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil postponed for June 25 the analysis of the request for freedom of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is currently serving 431 days in prison for alleged acts of corruption, apparently by new elements that have appeared related to compromising revelations that involve the former judge and today Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro, with steps before prosecutors to be able to condemn the leader of the Workers' Party.

Judicial sources confirmed that the superior court closed its hearing on Tuesday without discussing the writ of habeas corpus of the defense of the former labor leader.

The five magistrates of the court had to decide whether the lawyers of the exmetalúrgico had ample right to the defense when the case was approached in April by the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), of smaller category.

Since April 7, 2018, Lula remains in prison for allegedly receiving a luxurious triplex apartment in the city of Guarujá, on the coast of Sao Paulo, of the construction company OAS, in exchange for favoring the company in contracts with the oil company State Petrobras.

In February, he received another sentence for the repairs that the OAS and Odebrecht builders made on a rural property attributed to the former governor in Atibaia, Sao Paulo, as payment for alleged political favors. The founder of the Workers' Party denies all imputations.

Last year, Minister Felix Fischer rejected a request for Lula's acquittal in the process of the triplex apartment in Guarujá, which led to the former union's arrest.

His defense requests in 73 pages the nullity of the process and the immediate freedom of the exmandatario. Complaint that the ex-judge Sérgio Moro was partial and persecuted his client.

The main proof of the political performance of Moros would be the acceptance of the ex-magistrate for the Government of Jair Bolsonaro as Minister of Justice and Public Security.

To this is added the reports published on Sunday by the digital site The Intercept, based on audio, email and compromising conversations of Moro with prosecutors of the anti-corruption operation Lava Jato to incriminate the former president. (RHC)