The Brazilian Prosecutor’s Office requests a statute of limitations in the case of the OAS luxury triplex for which Lula was imprisoned for almost two years

The Attorney General’s Office of Brazil recognized on Tuesday the prescription of one of the cases in which the former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva He spent 580 days in jail and asked the Justice to file it permanently.

According to the body, by the age of Lula (76 years) and due to a decision of the Supreme Court that annulled the first conviction in this case and ordered a restart of the process, among other reasons, it would be unfeasible to redo the trial, since as a defendant over 70 years of age, the statute of limitations are cut in half.

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“Analyzing the sentences, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had his sentence reviewed by the STJ (Superior Court of Justice), making it final for the crime of money laundering in 3 years and 4 months in prison and for the crime of passive corruption in 5 years, 6 months and 20 days “, indicated the Prosecutor’s Office.

However, he clarified that in this case the statute of limitations “provided for in article 109, paragraphs II and III, of the Penal Code, reduced by half, is applied, thus prescribing the possible state punishment.”

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Thus, “there is no procedural budget for the offer or ratification of the complaint on the alleged facts” to Lula, added the Federal Public Ministry in a 17-page opinion on the decision of the Supreme Court that the process be restarted. in the courts of Brasilia.

The building where the triplex that Lula would have received from OAS is located.

, which was one of the three prison sentences handed down in the first instance that the Supreme Court annulled and ordered that they be tried again by the federal justice, for conflicts of jurisdiction.

According to the Supreme, Lula was tried by a court of first instance of Curitiba, in charge of the then judge Sergio Moro, who did not have “legal competence” to analyze these cases, so they are now at the hands of the federal Justice of Brasilia, which should decide on the course of each of the causes.

The decision affected three processes: that of the Guarujá apartment, that of a country house in the São Paulo town of Atibaia and an investigation into the Lula Institute, founded by the ex-president.

In the first case, Lula was sentenced to 12 years in prison, which was 17 years in the case referring to the country house, while in the case referring to the institute there is still no final judgment.

For those sentences, Lula spent 580 days in prison and was released on November 9, 2019 after the Supreme Court altered its own jurisprudence and decided that a person can only enter prison when they no longer have available appeals, that It was not the case of the ex-president.

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