Lula government members and allies in the National Congress have expressed strangeness with the treatment given to a operation on the 17th.
The main reason is the fact that they were transferred to the Campo Grande Federal Penitentiary (MS), intended for prisoners of high dangerousness and filled with members of criminal factions.
In this situation are the businessman Alan Cavalcante do Nascimento, the former deputy by MDB João Alberto Paixão Lages and Helder Adriano de Freitas, named as a articulator with public servants.
The main defendants in Operation Reed work in the mining area in Minas Gerais.
For the crime of which they are accused, fraud in the release of environmental licenses, the destination to such a restrictive and distant regime from their states generated suspicions in the government and congress that the Federal Police and the Public Prosecution Service would be under pressure for some of the accused to close an award -winning agreement.
According to people close to the Lula administration, the modus operandi is similar to that used in the decade passed by
Another arrested in the operation is Felipe Lombardi Martins, who was advisor to the office of former Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD) between 2019 and 2021.
Pacheco is appointed as a possible candidate for governor of Minas Gerais with the support of Lula next year.
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