Brasilia: Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva today exhibits his 22nd victory in the Brazilian justice system, after a court in Sao Paulo closed the investigation against three of his children for lack of evidence, Prensa Latina publishes.
The new victory of the founder of the Workers’ Party emerged after the São Paulo fifth Federal Criminal Court accepted the request of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) and put an end to the investigation against Fabio Luis, Marcos Cláudio and Sandro Luis Lula da Silva.
This investigation was based on alleged evidence manufactured in the field of the deactivated Lava Jato judicial operation and, therefore, was considered null by the Supreme Federal Court (STF), given the suspicion of partiality in his performance of the former judge, former Minister of Justice and future presidential candidate Sérgio Moro.
According to the news portal Brasil 247, the successive judicial victories of Lula and his family not only demonstrate their innocence, but also testify to the intense legal and media persecution of which the former president was a victim.
The MPF accepted the defense argument that the investigation, which inquired of Lula’s children for alleged tax evasion related to payments made between their companies, was based on the material from Lava Jato.
Federal judge Maria Isabel do Prado, of the aforementioned fifth court, determined the file of another open police investigation against the descendants of the former worker leader.
‘Rightly so the defense. Once the illegality of the elements of conviction accumulated in the original criminal actions that demonstrated the receipt of taxable income is recognized, the characterization of the crime of tax evasion is impaired, “concluded the attorney Rhayssa Castro Sanches Rodrigues.
Lula’s lawyers demonstrated that the material used to open the investigation against the children originates from the Lava Jato of Curitiba, declared void by the Supreme Court after acknowledging the incompetence of the thirteenth federal court in the southern city and Moro’s suspicion of arbitrariness .
The former president recovered all his political rights in March after an STF judge annulled his sentences and opened the possibility of running for power in 2022.
