The former governor of José Roberto Arruda claims that the (Bank of ) would ensure that the Pandora’s Box operation scandal, for which he was convicted, would be judged today in the Small Claims Court.
“If everything they said against me was true, having received R$20,000, two years before the election, and declared it in the Electoral Court, I would go to the Small Claims Court, close to the Master and BRB case”, Arruda joked to the Panel.
Arruda is trying to return to politics after almost 15 years. A pre-candidate for the government of the Federal District, he will join the PSD on December 15th in a ceremony in Brasília alongside the party’s national president, Gilberto Kassab.
Pivot of the DEM’s monthly allowance, Arruda was arrested and convicted in cases arising from the 2009 Pandora’s Box operation, when he was . In 2022, the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) for federal deputy.
This time, however, recent changes in the counting of the period of ineligibility do not make the former governor’s situation legally complex.
With the device approved by the National Congress and sanctioned by Lula (PT), the period of ineligibility is limited to eight years and starts to count from the decision that decreed the loss of the mandate, no longer from the end of the mandate.
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