Tarso Genro: "Arrests continue for political reasons"
Former governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Tarso Genro, from the Workers' Party (PT), expressed doubt that the businessmen arrested in the Federal Police's Operation Lava Jato, which investigates allegations of embezzlement and corruption in Petrobras contracts, remain detained for "procedural or investigative reasons." In a series of posts on his personal Twitter account, he believes the detentions continue for "political reasons"; "They remain imprisoned for political reasons. They remain imprisoned to serve as obstacles to the deepening of the investigations, limiting them," he stated.
247 - Former governor of Rio Grande do Sul for the PT, Tarso Genro, said on Sunday (15) that he doubted that the businessmen arrested by the Federal Police's Operation Lava Jato, which investigates allegations of embezzlement and corruption in Petrobras contracts, would remain detained for "procedural or investigative reasons". In a series of posts on his personal Twitter account, he believes that the arrests continue for "political reasons". "They remain imprisoned for political reasons. They remain imprisoned to serve as obstacles to the deepening of the investigations, limiting them," he posted.
Tarso Genro, who was a minister during the government of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also said that those detained "remain imprisoned due to a political function of the Judiciary and to direct judicial processes. It's about time someone said that," he wrote.
Despite the criticism, he stated that he was not considering "whether the arrests are fair or not, I am saying that new political criteria are being adopted in this case." "What should concern us is whether these new criteria have defined objectives and what they are, when clear-headed members of the PSDB party are talking about impeachment," he added.
Check it out at link From Diario do Centro do Mundo, the posts made by Tarso Genro on his personal Twitter account.