Lula: Moro reinforced his bias when speaking about the presidential archives.
In addition to criticizing Judge Sergio Moro's decision, in which the Paraná magistrate deemed himself competent to judge the cases concerning the property in Atibaia (SP) and the apartment in Guarujá (SP), former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva released a second statement last night; in it, he accuses Moro of acting with bias when commenting on the fate of gifts Lula received while president of the Republic; "The discussion about the presidential collection has no relation whatsoever to Operation Lava Jato," say the former president's lawyers; "There is no legal justification for the Lava Jato Judge to also want to take up this issue, making new — and equally unfounded — accusations against Lula."
247 - In addition to criticizing Judge Sergio Moro's decision (read hereIn the case where the judge from Paraná deemed himself competent to judge the cases concerning the property in Atibaia (SP) and the apartment in Guarujá (SP), former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva released a second statement last night.
In it, he accuses Moro of acting with bias when commenting on the fate of gifts Lula received when he was president of the Republic. "The discussion about the presidential collection has no relation whatsoever to Operation Lava Jato," say the former president's lawyers, Roberto Teixeira and Cristiano Martins. "There is no legal justification for the Lava Jato judge to also want to meddle in this matter, making new—and equally unfounded—accusations against Lula."
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Judge Sergio Moro reinforced his bias against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by stating in a new decision issued today (August 16, 2016 – Criminal Search and Seizure Request No. 5010119073.2016.4.04.7000/PR) that "there are some assets that, if received as gifts during his term as President of the Republic, perhaps should have been incorporated into the Presidency's assets."
The discussion regarding the presidential archives has no relation whatsoever to Operation Lava Jato. There is an ongoing procedure before the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Brasília in which the treatment given by the Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic to the presidential archives of all former Presidents of the Republic since 1991 is being discussed, when the subject was regulated by law (Law No. 8.394/91).
There is no legal justification for the Lava Jato judge to also want to meddle in this matter, making new — and equally unfounded — accusations against Lula.
Cristiano Zanin Martins and Roberto Teixeira