Andrade Gutierrez cheated the justice system to help the PSDB party and was rewarded by Lava Jato.

By Jeferson Miola, in your Facebook

The construction company Andrade Gutierrez cheated the justice system to help the PSDB party and, despite the crimes of perjury and concealing corruption within the party, was still rewarded by Lava Jato with plea bargains, reduced sentences, and the preservation of the fortune amassed in the theft of public funds.

In the proceedings before the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) regarding the campaign expenses of the Dilma-Temer presidential ticket, the former president of the construction company, Otávio Azevedo, gave false testimony to incriminate Dilma, lying about having donated R$ 1 million of money allegedly obtained through bribes to her 2014 campaign.

Azevedo claimed, with impressive brazenness, that the donation to Dilma's campaign originated from bribes, while the contributions made to Aécio Neves' campaign – in larger amounts and originating from the same Andrade Gutierrez fund – had a legal and honest origin.

Dilma's defense in the trial dismantled the scheme, proving that the donation was made via a check not to the official treasury of the Dilma-Temer ticket, but specifically to the then vice-presidential candidate, the conspirator Michel Temer.

Once the villainy was exposed, the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) understood that since the donation was made to Temer, it would no longer be considered a bribe; if it had been made to Dilma, it would have been. At the same time, the TSE granted Otávio Azevedo the right to "correct" the false testimony. The businessman, however, was not punished for perjury, for producing false evidence, and for falsely accusing third parties of a crime.

Andrade Gutierrez's conduct of cheating the justice system and falsifying the truth to protect the PSDB appears to be institutional practice. In their plea bargain agreements with Lava Jato, the company's directors concealed irregularities in the execution of public works projects during PSDB governments.

- [1] the scheme set up with direct and personal instructions from Aécio Neves in Minas Gerais for the construction of the State Administrative Center, estimated to cost R$ 500 million, but which reached R$ 2,1 billion – an overbilling of more than 400%!;

- [2] corruption in the construction of the São Paulo metropolitan ring road [Rodoanel Mário Covas], where misappropriations are estimated at more than R$ 1,3 billion; and

- [3] corruption in the São Paulo metro, which has existed since 1998 when the PSDB governments [Covas, Serra and Alckmin] began, and which has caused losses of more than R$ 1 billion.

Andrade Gutierrez's trick to hide the PSDB's schemes didn't work, because Odebrecht employees reported such cases in their plea bargain agreements. Faced with this new procedural fraud and concealment of evidence, the Lava Jato task force rewarded the construction company's directors with a "recall," that is, a new opportunity to "correct" their false testimonies.

You don't need to be a brilliant lawyer to identify the applicable criminal charges for anyone who mocks the judiciary, as the directors of Andrade Gutierrez do to protect the PSDB.

It's easy to understand this: Brazil is in the midst of a coup d'état and under a state of exception. The coup-plotting oligarchy is controlling and directing state institutions – the judiciary, the public prosecutor's office, the federal police – to destroy class enemies.

To annihilate Lula and the PT, anything goes, including the destruction of the rule of law, the Constitution, and democracy.