Twelve years and 1,585 pages later, the São Paulo courts decided to extinguish an administrative misconduct opened in September 2013 by the prosecutor against
In the process, which contains 73 volumes, the MP accused Abe of making an unlawful agreement to defraud and change the granting of public transport services in the city of Mogi in 2003.
“The event was fully directed, there was no effective competition among its participants,” prosecutor Renato Kim Barbosa said, who said Abe requested $ 6 million as payment to the winning companies.
Abe, who in 2018 took office in, told the court to be innocent. He stated that the bid was not directed, that there were no irregularities, and that the prosecution made a series of errors in the investigation.
“There was no bribe payment,” he said in the defense presented in the process. “You can’t play with people’s lives, with your reputation.”
In filing the case 12 years later, the court did not even analyze the evidence presented by both parties.
In sentence on May 19, the São Paulo courts pronounced the prescription of the case. That is, the process was extinguished due to the loss of the right of action due to the passage of the period provided by law.
In determining the prescription, Judge Bruno Miano said that “proceedings that are processed for years without completion only make the lives of the defendants uncertain, which have to live with the eternalization of the Damocles sword in their heads.”
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