The defense of the former president of Brazil, Lula da Silva (2003-2010) has been ruled out on Wednesday with the help of the messages Sergio Moro as judge sent to the prosecutors of the Lava Jato operation, after the ‘habeas corpus’ that the bias in that process, as “the bias is more than proven”.
Lula’s attorney, Cristiano Zanin, has argued that the defense does not need to “add new elements to the trial,” which the Brazilian says will have to be retried by the second panel of the Supreme Court in the first half of 2021. newspaper ‘Folha of Sao Paulo’.
“Moro’s bias is more than proven,” Zanin insisted, after a series of telephone messages from former Justice Secretary Jair Bolsonaro came to light as part of the Spoofing operation, granting hackers access to this information.
This week, the Supreme Court upheld the order to give Lula’s defense unrestricted access to those reports, in which Moro, who was the judge on the case, was read, led the prosecution and even appointed witnesses against the former Brazilian president.
Moro and prosecutors have requested that these messages be disregarded in the trial as they were obtained illegally. The former Bolsonaro minister defended Tuesday that none of those talks showed “procedural fraud, misconduct, violation of impartiality or any other illegal act.”
However, Lula’s defense is of the opposite opinion and it is expected that they will be used during the trial sessions against the former president for an alleged crime of corruption related to the Odebrecht construction company.
“We don’t need more discussions in the trial, which already has sufficient evidence. The defense is interested in ending a trial that started in 2018,” Zanin concludes.
The ‘habeas corpus’ was presented in 2016 claiming that there is already evidence against Moro, according to the Supreme Court decision, which registered and followed Lula’s lawyers to learn more about his defense strategy, plus he recalled how he had violated legal secrecy with regard to the punishment. against Lula’s former finance minister, Antonio Palocci, “who preferred” then-candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who appointed him head of justice.