Unlike Lula, the courts released a prisoner in the Lava Jato corruption scandal to attend his grandmother's funeral.
The courts created a real mess to prevent Lula from attending his brother Vavá's funeral last week; with the denial, the former president was prevented from saying goodbye to his older brother. However, for another prisoner, the ruling was much more flexible: former congressman Luiz Argolo was able to attend his grandmother's funeral in 2017. He was imprisoned at the Medical-Penal Complex in the metropolitan region of Curitiba and was granted three days' leave to travel to Bahia and attend the funeral.
247 - The courts created a real mess to prevent former President Lula from attending his brother Vavá's funeral last week. However, for another prisoner, the ruling was much more lenient. According to journalist Mônica Bergamo, in her... column According to the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper, there is at least one precedent in the Lava Jato operation of a prisoner who was released after the death of a relative: former congressman Luiz Argolo attended his grandmother's funeral in 2017.
Argolo was imprisoned at the Medical-Penal Complex in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, and was granted three days' leave to travel to Bahia and attend the funeral.
On November 16, 2015, the Federal Court in Paraná convicted former federal deputy Luiz Argôlo of the crimes of passive corruption and money laundering, investigated in Operation Lava Jato. Judge Sérgio Moro sentenced him to 11 years and 11 months in prison under a closed regime, in addition to fines totaling R$ 459.740.