Brazil: Lava Jato Operation targets celebrate Dallagnol’s mandate removal
Two of the main targets of Operation Lava Jato, which was led by Federal Congressman Deltan Dallagnol (Podemos-PR) when he still served as a prosecutor at the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, and one of the ministers of the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), who was arrested during the investigations, celebrated the removal from office of the parliamentarian by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on the night of Tuesday (16).
On social networks, the former President of the House of Representatives, Eduardo Cunha, posted a short message with the words “Bye dear” about the phrase that became famous during the impeachment process of former President Dilma Rousseff (PT) in 2016.
Cunha was the house’s President at the time and determined the opening of the impeachment.
Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL), meanwhile, who was also a target of the Lava Jato, called Dallagnol a “dirty record thief” and said that he “offended in the MP [Public Ministry], eager for power.”
“To defraud the law, he anticipated exoneration to escape the clean record, even with two convictions in the CNMP – 1 of my authorship – and 15 lawsuits. Justice is late, but does not fail,” he added on Twitter.
President Lula did not comment on Dallagnol’s conviction.
But his Justice Minister, Flávio Dino, said on social networks, “I remembered a biblical text, which I dedicate to President Lula: ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be filled.”
Dino went further and said that when he was a federal congressman in 2010, he was the author of an amendment to the Ficha Limpa (Clean Record) Law that determined the legislation’s application to magistrates and MP members.
“But I swear I don’t travel back in time before they accuse me of that,” he said in a post.
Other targets of Operation Lava Jato, such as
- former Finance Ministers Antônio Palocci and Guido Mantega;
- former Minister of the Civil House José Dirceu;
- former President of the Chamber Henrique Eduardo Alves;
- former Senate President Garibaldi Alves;
- former Senator Delcídio do Amaral and
- former President Dilma Rousseff herself
have not commented on the mandate’s removal of the former prosecutor.
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