The former governor of Sérgio Cabral, sentenced to sentences of more than 420 years in prison for corruption and who has been in prison for six years, could be released this Saturday from jail and placed under house arrest.
The decision made by the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil enters into force this Saturday.
Sérgio Cabral admitted, before being tried, that he had bought votes for Rio de Janeiro to be chosen as the host of the 2016 Olympic Games.
In addition, the politician was also convicted, among other crimes, of diverting public funds to works for the 2014 World Cup and will now use an electronic bracelet under house arrest and not in jail.
Cabral was also accused in some thirty processes and during his six years in prison he accumulated more than 20 sentences totaling more than 420 years in prison, some of which were reviewed by the Brazilian Justice.
By three votes to two, the judges considered that Cabral had exceeded the time of preventive detention in a closed regime, for which reason they annulled the arrest warrant and sent the case to be analyzed by the Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro.
The arrest warrant for Cabral was issued in 2016 in the State of Paraná by the then federal judge Sérgio Moro, responsible for the Lava Jato operation and internationally known for having imprisoned Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who, after spending 580 days in prison , is today the elected president of Brazil and without any conviction.
Sérgio Cabral’s activity did not end in jail, since, during the period in which he was imprisoned, the former governor was accused of having privileges that ranged from having a cell phone, receiving orders from luxury restaurants to installing a 65-inch television. your cellphone.
Representatives of the Public Ministry also denounced that the former politician received continuous visits from parliamentarians who evaded the procedures required by prison and judicial security for this type of meeting. The irregularities committed caused Sérgio Cabral to go through six different prisons in Brazil.
Source: TSF
