Kakay sees "almost" criminal wiretapping in Demosthenes' case.
The senator's defense lawyer attends the CPI session and launches his thesis into the media spotlight; according to him, the constitution was violated in an "almost criminal" manner in the wiretaps on the senator; but what constitutes an "almost criminal" police action?
Fernando Porfírio _247 - Senator Demóstenes Torres' lawyer (no party affiliation-GO), Antônio Carlos de Almeida Castro, known as Kakay, said on Tuesday (15) that the testimonies of the delegates responsible for the Vegas and Monte Carlo operations at the CPMI, last week, prove that there was a "circumvention" of the Constitution. Kakay argues that Demóstenes was illegally recorded.
Kakay went to the Senate to attend the testimonies, before the Ethics Committee, of the Federal Police delegates Raul Alexandre Marques Souza, responsible for Operation Vegas, and Matheus Mella Rodrigues, responsible for Operation Monte Carlo.
In response to what he described as a clear procedural error, the lawyer reiterated what he has been saying for several weeks: the evidence in the investigation that has been underway at the Supreme Court since March 29th is invalid.
The delegates reportedly confirmed that in 2009 the Attorney General's Office was aware of the content of phone calls between Demóstenes and the racketeer Carlos Augusto Ramos, known as Carlinhos Cachoeira, and therefore could not have failed to inform the STF (Supreme Federal Court) of the recordings, in order to obtain authorization from that Court to investigate an authority with privileged jurisdiction.
The lawyer said he is aware that Demóstenes' trial before the council is political, as already stated by the rapporteur of the case based on a complaint from PSOL, Senator Humberto Costa (PT-PE). Even so, Demóstenes' defense attorney believes that the "confirmation" of the procedural error within the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Court, which authorized the wiretaps in Operation Monte Carlo, could help convince the members of the council presided over by Senator Antonio Carlos Valadares to acquit the Goiás parliamentarian.
“The delegates’ testimonies made it clear that since 2009 there had been a fierce, closed investigation against Senator Demóstenes. What I have been saying in my complaint to the Supreme Court has been proven here. A clear, I would say almost criminal, violation of the Constitution of the Republic has been proven. I only want them to confirm [in the Ethics Committee] what they said to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry,” stated the lawyer.