Mastermind of Lula's corruption cases temporarily released from jail

Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 - 06:53 UTC

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Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release from prison of Jose Dirceu, who was convicted of graft-related crimes after serving as cabinet chief of ex-president Lula da Silva. Dirceu has been detained since 2015 in connection to a vast corruption scheme known as Car Wash. Read full article

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Wasn't it 32 years of the prison sentence but Released? And that too, “Temporarily”? As usual, the Brazilians keep watching the drama calmly!
May 03rd, 2017 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
Although I think the SOB should rot in jail, the STF (namely the “petista” judges), decided to free him....the reason - technically correct, is that he cannot he held in prison indefinitely without a condemnation from a 2nd instance federal court....this will happen though, and when it does, the SOB goes back to prison, where hopefully, he will die.
May 03rd, 2017 - 09:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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I hope so too!

Unfortunately, the other crooks are doing their best to escape - either the imprisonment or the accusations. It looks like most of them are likely to succeed. Besides, Marcelo Odebrecht and Eike Batista will be ready, able and willing to “support” these crooks.
May 04th, 2017 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
Am not too worried about the executives, they will do their time in jail....What leaves me concerned is the sh*t we have in the STF....wonder how much some of them are getting from the PT , to issue favourable decisions ? that's why the damned “judiciário” also needs to be investigated....some of them are no better than the crooks they are supposed to be sending to prison...
May 05th, 2017 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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The crooks will always protect the Fellow-Crooks: http://www.pragmatismopolitico.com.br/2017/04/os-108-nomes-da-lista-de-fachin.html
May 07th, 2017 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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