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      Supreme Court authorizes transfer of Marcos Valério to prison in Minas Gerais.

      Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luís Roberto Barroso authorized the transfer of advertising executive Marcos Valério, sentenced to 37 years in prison in the Mensalão corruption scandal (Action 470), to a prison in Lagoa da Prata, Minas Gerais. Valério is currently serving his sentence at the Nelson Hungria Penitentiary in Contagem, Minas Gerais. The transfer request was made by Valério's defense, which argued that he is in the process of negotiating a plea bargain with the Attorney General's Office (PGR), where he intends to implicate prominent figures in the political and business sectors.

      Brazil, Belo Horizonte, MG, 02/12/2011. Publicist Marcos Valério Fernandes de Souza, suspected of leading the scheme nationally known as Mensalão, was arrested in the early hours of this Friday (2) in Belo Horizonte (MG). The businessman was detained in (Photo: Leonardo Lucena)

      André Richter - Reporter for Agência Brasil

      Supreme Court Justice Luís Roberto Barroso authorized the transfer of advertising executive Marcos Valério, sentenced to 37 years in prison in the Mensalão corruption scandal (Action 470), to a prison in Lagoa da Prata, Minas Gerais. Valério is currently serving his sentence at the Nelson Hungria penitentiary in Contagem, Minas Gerais.

      The transfer request was made by the advertising executive's defense, which alleged that he is in the process of negotiating a plea bargain with the Attorney General's Office (PGR), where he intends to implicate "renowned people" in the political and business spheres. According to his defense, Valério has already written 78 annexes.

      "These documents are extremely important; they will prove that some politicians received bribes, and they will reveal how some parties received money through undeclared funds, and which companies were responsible for making and transferring payments to the parties," says the defense.

      Confidential information

      According to the petition, prison security officers began leafing through the pages of the notebooks in which Valério writes his confessions, putting "highly confidential information" at risk.

      Furthermore, the lawyers argued that the advertising executive's 80-year-old mother is physically and financially unable to visit him in the prison where her son is being held.