The Attorney General, Paulo Gonet, defended on Wednesday (30) that the former president fulfills, on a humanitarian basis, house arrest.
In demonstration sent to the Minister of the Supreme Court (STF), Gonet stated that “the maintenance of the custodian [Collor] In house arrest is exceptional and proportional to its age group and its health, whose severity was duly proven “in the file.
Earlier, Moraes had asked the Attorney to speak up, within five days, about Collor’s.
The defense of the politician requested the benefit on the grounds that the former president’s arrest can aggravate his health problems. A medical report included in the process shows that the severe sleep apnea and bipolar affective disorder.
The medical report signed by Health Professional at Baldomero Cavalcanti de Oliveira Prison in (AL) says that the Alagoas prison system is able to maintain Collor’s health treatment.
The document emphasizes the importance of observing his age and a possible worsening in the psychiatric framework of the former president. The politician makes daily use of eight medicines – most of them are antidepressants.
Gonet stated that despite the medical report and the closed regime for serving the sentence, “it is recommended and adequate to grant humanitarian house arrest, since the requirements established by infraconstitutional legislation must keep compatibility with the principles of integral and priority protection of the elderly (arts. 230 of the Constitution and 3rd of Law no. III, of the Constitution) “.
“There is even constitutional forecast establishing that ‘the programs of support for the elderly will preferably executed in their homes,'” he added.
Collor has been in prison since Friday (25). He was sentenced to eight years and ten months in prison for crimes of passive corruption and money laundering. The lawsuit against the former president ended on Monday after the Supreme Court rejected the last appeal of the politician’s defense.
He was accused by the PGR of receiving R $ 20 million in bribes to ensure the signing of fraudulent contracts of BR Distribuidora, a subsidiary company of Petrobras, with the construction company UTC. The crimes occurred from 2010 to 2014.
