Court orders Lula's seized property to be analyzed
Federal Judge Sergio Moro asked the presidency to analyze the property seized with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during probes of Operation Car Wash, to check whether some of them should be reassembled to the presidential collection.
The judge responded to a request from the Federal Prosecution Service for the government to analize Lula's property seized in February this year in a bank vault in São Paulo. Their purpose is to examine what belongs to the former president's personal collection and what should had been stored as public property of the presidency.
In the decision, Sergio Moro used as reference an audit of the Federal Court of Audits in which they noted that 4,500 items of the government's property were missing. The judge ordered the investigation of the origin of the property stored in the bank in the last 45 days.
Lula's defense released a statement criticizing Moro's decision and claiming that the judge has no jurisdiction over the presidential collection. According to the note, the property stored in the bank are letters, documents, and gifts received by Lula during his two terms as president.
*With additional reporting by André Richter
Translated by Amarílis Anchieta
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