Cavendish's plan in the CPI is to blame Cláudio Abreu.
If he is not granted the right to remain silent, the owner of Delta will likely direct accusations against the construction company towards the former director of the Midwest region, who was dismissed from the company in March; however, this statement would not clarify the company's relationships in states outside the region.
247 – The lawyers for Delta's owner, Fernando Cavendish, have already defined a strategy for the contractor, who will have to testify before the Cachoeira Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry in August. The line to be taken will be to place all the blame for the company's relationships on the former director of the Central-West region, Cláudia Abreu, who was removed from his position in March after the accusations against him came to light. Delta is accused by the Federal Police of maintaining relationships with Carlos Cachoeira's group and is also the largest recipient of funds from the federal government in the last three years.
The first step in the defense, however, is to appeal to the Supreme Federal Court so that Cavendish can obtain a habeas corpus that would give him the right to remain silent before the Congressional committee, as the lawyers of practically all the other witnesses did. This strategy would only be implemented if the businessman did not emerge victorious. The problem for Cavendish, in that case, is that Abreu only controlled the Central-West region, the target of the largest number of accusations by the Federal Police for its relations with the government of Goiás. His testimony would therefore not clarify the relationships the company had in Tocantins and Rio de Janeiro, for example.
When he appeared before the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on May 30th, Cláudio Abreu exercised his right to remain silent. In the CPI taking place at the Legislative Assembly of Goiás, which is specifically investigating Delta, he maintained the same stance, answering only one question about his mother, who allegedly held a position in the office of a former state deputy. The suspended director of Delta Construções was arrested on April 25th by the Federal Police during Operation Saint-Michel. He was released from the Papuda Penitentiary in Brasília on June 8th by a decision of the judge of the 5th Criminal Court of Brasília, who revoked his preventive detention.