Lula criticizes arrest of former finance minister
Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva considered "insolent" the statement made by Federal Judge Sergio Moro declaring that the of the task force of the Operation Car Wash were not aware that the wife of former Finance Minister Guido Mantega, arrested for a few hours on Thursday (Sep. 22), would undergo a surgery on the same day.
"His wife [Mantega] has cancer and was beginning a surgery. They took him for later, in great insolence, apologize for it, [by saying] that they were not aware that she had cancer. They knew that the lady was in the surgery room and it was not to embellish herself, for a make up, she was undergoing a surgery," said Lula during an election rally in Recife.
Arrest
Brazilian former Finance Minister Guido Mantega was temporarily detained Thursday morning (Sep. 22) by the Federal Police as part of the probes into money embezzlement at Petrobras. According to a note from the Federal Prosecution Service, in July, 2012, consortium Integra Offshore, formed by companies Mendes Júnior and OSX, signed a $922 million contract with Petrobras for the construction of platforms P-67 and P-70.
Federal Judge Sergio Moro revoked the temporary arrest of former Finance Minister Guido Mantega. To justify his decision, Moro said that, taking into consideration Mantega's wife's health state and the seizure of documents already carried out at the homes of the investigated, there is no need to keep the onetime cabinet member under custody, as he can no longer interfere in evidence collection.
Translated by Amarílis Anchieta
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