After hospital denial, Lava Jato creates a new version, says Lula's defense.
"The Lava Jato prosecutors created a new, fantastical version after the property owner's narrative regarding the 2015 rental receipts, which served as the basis for the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office's questioning of these documents, was refuted by two official letters sent by the Sírio-Libanês Hospital to Judge Sérgio Moro," denounce the former president's lawyers.
247 Former President Lula's lawyers claim that Lava Jato "created a new, fantastical version" of the facts after obtaining information that his account regarding the rental receipts for an apartment in São Bernardo was not substantiated, since the Sírio Libanês Hospital reported that Lula's lawyer, Roberto Teixeira, did not visit the owner of the property.
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The Lava Jato prosecutors created a new, fanciful version after the property owner's account of the 2015 rental receipts, which served as the basis for the Public Prosecutor's Office's questioning of these documents, was refuted by two official letters sent by the Sírio Libanês Hospital to Judge Sérgio Moro. The letters show that Mr. Glaucos da Costamarques was not visited in the hospital by lawyer Roberto Teixeira while he was hospitalized between November and December 2015.
The defense team for former President Lula has already demonstrated that, in addition to the receipts presented containing a declaration of payment of the rents—the most complete proof of payment according to the law—the evidence in the case confirms that the owner received the amounts as agreed upon in the contract.
Mr. Glaucos acknowledges being the owner of the property, paid for through cashier's checks, which dismantles the accusation by the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office that the purchase of the property was made using funds from 8 Petrobras contracts, something that was never proven.
The following, among other elements, are included in the proceedings to confirm the position of former President Lula's defense: (i) breach of the owner's bank secrecy, showing that he received several cash payments between 2011 and 2015, which exceed the total value of the rents by more than seven times; (ii) payment of the income tax on the rent received; (iii) statement from the accountant that he periodically received the rent receipts from the owner.
The Lava Jato Task Force is once again acting unfairly by attaching to the case today a unilateral report based on telephone data it has possessed since January 2017, data to which former President Lula's defense has no access. Once again, "secret" elements are being used in the action, unrelated to the accusation contained in the indictment, violating the constitutional guarantee of full defense.
The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office is also trying to confuse calls that were not made, as well as calls directed to a central extension, with alleged calls to the lawyer Roberto Teixeira.