The Supreme Court of Brazil this Tuesday annulled the decisions taken by a regional court against Marcelo Odebrecht for which he ended up convicted of corruption in the scope of the operation ‘Lava Jato’official sources reported.
In addition to annulling the decisions made by the Thirteenth Federal Court of Curitiba, the magistrate also ordered the suspension of all criminal proceedings opened against the businessman.
The magistrate’s decision responded to a request from Marcelo Odebrecht’s defense under the premise that his case was similar to that of other defendants in the ‘Lava Jato’ operation whose cases were annulled due to irregularities in the investigations.
In September of last year, the same judge annulled all the evidence obtained through collaboration agreements with the construction company Odebrecht, which affected several politicians and businessmen from Brazil and other countries within the framework of the so-called Lava Jato operation.
Most of the decisions annulled this Tuesday against Marcelo Odebrecht were issued by the then Thirteenth Judge of Curitiba, Sergio Moro, author of the sentences against Lula and who later was Minister of Justice in the Government of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). .
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