Accused of state, () is at least the seventh former president of Brazil since the redemocratization to be denounced to the court on suspicion of any crime.
The other accused ex-mandates were, Itamar Franco ,, and.
Most of them faced criminal accusations from Operation Lava Jato and its developments. Today, most processes are already closed.
Bolsonaro was denounced by (Attorney General’s Office) on the 18th to keep him in power after the 2022 elections and prevent President Lula’s inauguration.
The former chief of the executive is accused of crimes of armed criminal organization, violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup, damage qualified by violence and serious threat and deterioration of listed heritage.
The current President of the Republic, Lula, became a defendant in 11 criminal actions, not simultaneously, in the Lava Jato years. In one of these cases, the Guarujá triplex was convicted and was arrested for 580 days between 2018 and 2019. Subsequently, the Supreme Court (STF).
One by one, Lula was obtaining victories in court and got rid of the accusations.
One of the complaints against him also involved his successor and political affiliated, Dilma. In an inquiry that was nicknamed “”-Thus for ascertaining whether people linked to the party participated in a diverting scheme-the two petistas were accused in 2017 by then-attorney Rodrigo Janot of integrating criminal organization. The case was in the first instance, and the two went.
Emedebista Michel Temer, who took over after the president, had offered by PGR against him while still in office, including one of the alleged endorsement to the businessman to buy the silence of former Deputy Eduardo Cunha in 2017.
In 2019, already outside the Planalto Palace, the former president was even in the Rio de Janeiro Lava Jato in the midst of investigation of corruption, embezzlement and money laundering for state-owned Electronuclear.
These cases, however, did not result in convictions in court.
Also within the Lava Jato, José Sarney (MDB) was twice in 2017 by Rodrigo Janot. In one case, the accusation was active corruption and money laundering in scheme that would have diverted resources from Petrobras’ subsidiary. The complaint ended filed by prescription.
Another complaint, of criminal organization, was rejected at the STF in 2023.
The most delicate legal situation today is that of Fernando Collor (now affiliated with the PRD), denounced by the PGR on charges of participation in a corruption scheme installed on BR Distribuidora, former subsidiary of Petrobras, for the feasibility of irregular contracts in exchange for advantages .
In this case, the practice of crimes of passive corruption and money laundering, with a penalty set in eight years and ten months in prison. There are still outstanding resources in the court, however, and he was not arrested.
Also at Lava Jato, statements of denunciation even implied former President Fernando Henrique (PSDB), but there was no formalized criminal accusation against him.
Businessman Emilio Odebrecht stated in award -winning denunciation that in presidential campaigns, but the case did not advance to a complaint. In 2017, the Federal Court understood that the facts narrated were already prescribed.
During his presidency period (1995-2002), FHC was criticized for indicating the leadership of the Attorney General Geraldo Brindeiro, who had the performance questioned for not giving progress to procedures against politicians.
The conduct at the head of office earned him from critics the nickname “. Toast classified the label as an injustice and said that the expression was created only because they wanted to use it as a “instrument of persecution.”
Another older process involving a former post-dictatorship president in the 2000s, when the PGR offered, who died in 2011. The Attorney’s Office accused him, at the time when he was governor of Minas Gerais, of offending honor of Fernando Henrique, when he occupied the Planalto Palace.
Itamar would have accused FHC of releasing public funds to members of the then PMDB (present -day MDB), with the objective of influencing the result of the party’s national convention. The process was also filed by prescription.
