Moro authorizes Duque to testify before the Petrobras CPI.
Federal Judge Sérgio Moro, responsible for the Lava Jato Operation investigations, authorized former Petrobras director Renato Duque, arrested yesterday in the tenth phase of the investigation, to testify at the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília next Thursday, the 19th, since an internal decision by the Chamber of Deputies does not allow prisoners to be questioned in the House.
247 – The Federal Court of Paraná has authorized former Petrobras director Renato Duque to testify before the Petrobras CPI next Thursday, the 19th. Since Duque was arrested yesterday in the tenth phase of Operation Lava Jato, the parliamentarians had to send an official letter to Judge Sérgio Moro, who is in charge of the case, to hear the witness.
The interrogation will take place at the Federal Police headquarters in Brasília, since an internal decision by the Chamber of Deputies does not allow hearings with prisoners. Duque's summons was approved by the members of the commission on the 5th, along with the former presidents of the state-owned company Graça Foster and José Sérgio Gabrielli, and also the former directors of the company Paulo Roberto Costa, Nestor Cerveró, and Jorge Zelada.
Duque, who is being held at the Federal Police headquarters in Curitiba (PR), was indicted for corruption, money laundering, and forming a criminal organization. The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office also indicted 26 other people for the same crimes, who were allegedly involved in fraud in the drafting of Petrobras contracts. Among them is the treasurer of the PT (Workers' Party), João Vaccari Neto.