Lauro Jardim: Attorney General's Office will only accept plea bargain with Cunha in solitary confinement.
According to journalist Lauro Jardim, the Attorney General's Office would wait for Eduardo Cunha (PMDB) to be tried and convicted on charges of bribery in Petrobras contracts and maintaining undeclared accounts in Switzerland before signing a plea bargain agreement; "The Attorney General's Office would agree to a plea bargain with Eduardo Cunha. But there is no chance of Cunha escaping several years in prison," said the journalist; the process to revoke Cunha's mandate will go to a vote in the Chamber's plenary session this August.
247 - Journalist Lauro Jardim, from Globo, reported this Wednesday, the 20th, that even if Congressman Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ) agrees to a plea bargain, the agreement would only be made after he is tried and convicted on charges of receiving bribes in Petrobras contracts and maintaining undeclared accounts in Switzerland, cases in which he is a defendant in the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
"The Attorney General's Office would agree to a plea bargain with Eduardo Cunha. But there's no chance Cunha will escape several years in prison," said the journalist.
The Speaker of the House, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), has already announced that the process to remove Cunha from office will go to a plenary vote this August.