Lewandowski suspends criminal proceedings regarding the purchase of Gripen fighter jets, the last remaining case against Lula.

247 - Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski has provisionally suspended the proceedings in the criminal case known as the "Gripen Fighter Jets case." the last remaining case against former president Lula.

The indictment alleged influence peddling in the acquisition of Swedish Saab-Grippen fighter jets. The purchase took place in 2013, during the Dilma Rousseff administration. During the procurement process, the Swedish military aircraft defeated Boeing's F-18 Super Hornet and the French Rafale, produced by Dassault Aviation. 

The case bears the fingerprints of Deltan Dallagnol, from the now-defunct Operation Car Wash task force, who unjustly imprisoned Lula and propelled the former prosecutor into politics, just as the suspect former judge Sergio Moro did. 

Lewandowski affirms that the purchase of the Gripen fighter jets complied with all legal parameters: "the purchase of said warships occurred strictly within the constitutional parameters of legality, legitimacy, and economy (article 70 of the Federal Constitution), especially since, to date, more than seven years after the signing of the respective contract, there is no record of it having been challenged by oversight bodies, such as the Comptroller General of the Union, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, or the Federal Court of Accounts."

"I grant the request made by the defense to provisionally suspend the proceedings of the case until the final judgment on the merits of this claim," he added. 

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