Former Petrobras service director Renato Duque, 69, and businessman Luis Alfeu Alves de Mendonça, 71, were convicted of corruption and money laundering crimes, within a criminal action proposed in 2020 by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in the context of.
The sentence was signed on the 14th by the substitute federal judge Guilherme Roman Borges, of the 13th Federal Court of. There is still an appeal of the decision.
Lawyer Marcelo Lebre, responsible for the defense of Duke, declined to speak. Said to Sheet This Tuesday (22) that your client chose to comment only in the processes. Duke is in prison, serving a sentence regarding. The report also tries to locate the businessman’s lawyers.
According to the prosecution, between 2011 and 2012, the businessman would have paid more than $ 5.6 million in bribes to the then director of services of Petrobras, with the objective of favoring Multitek Engineering in bids and contracts with the state.
Multitek Engenharia worked in the industrial bearings and Mendonça was a partner and administrator of the company. Contracts that were targets of the MPF total more than R $ 525 million, including additives.
Also according to the prosecution, the two concealed the origin of the amounts paid to Duque using the services of two brothers, Milton Pascowitch and José Adolfo Pascowitch, financial operators who became known during Lava Jato and who signed an award -winning collaboration agreement.
In their final allegations in the criminal action, the defendants challenged the accusations. Among other points, the entrepreneur’s defense claimed that Multitek Engenharia received no benefit from Petrobras under contracts, “in fact, having great damage.”
Duque’s defense, on the other hand, stated that the MPF’s accusation “is based solely on employees’ statements, and that even these testimonials do not confirm the imputation.”
But the judge welcomed most MPF’s requests. The businessman was sentenced to 11 years, 6 months and 22 days in prison and the payment of a fine. Already Duke was sentenced to 29 years and 2 months of imprisonment, in addition to the fine.
The judge also determined the confiscation, in favor of the Union, the amount of R $ 3.4 million in the defendants’ assets. He also agreed with the confiscation of sculpture Raízes, authored by Frans Krajcberg, and valued at R $ 220 thousand.
According to the complaint, the play, seized at Duque’s residence, was acquired by Milton Pascowitch in an auction. At least part of the money used in the acquisition would have come from Multitek Engenharia.
The work will only be transferred to the Union, however, after the final judgment of the case, that is, when there is no more possibility of appeal. For now, she is sheltered at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba.
