The former Deltan Dallagnol attorney paid R$ 146 thousand in compensation to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, complying with the conviction for moral damages for presenting a PowerPoint that presented the then former president as the center of the alleged criminal organization investigated by the task force.
The deposit slip was delivered on the 3rd of this month to the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP), where the execution of the conviction is being processed. The amount was raised through donations from supporters.
In 2016, Dallagnol made a presentation with the software to accuse Lula, who was being investigated for the operation, of heading a criminal organization. The presentation slide, with blue circles and names that indicated Lula as the center of the alleged scheme, was widely reproduced in the press and on social media.
Subsequently, the processes were annulled after the STF considered the former judge Sérgio Moro partial in conducting the investigation.
At the time, Cristiano Zanin, current minister of the STF and former lawyer for Lula, questioned Deltan’s functional conduct. According to him, the former prosecutor and other members of Lava Jato used the presentation to accuse the former president of acting as “commander and conductor of a criminal organization.”
In March 2022, the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) sentenced Deltan Dallagnol to pay R$75,000 in moral damages to Lula. Since then, the value has been adjusted by interest, reaching 146 thousand.
In July this year, after the São Paulo Court ordered the payment of compensation, Deltan said that he “did the right thing” and that he “has no regrets”.
Cassation
Deltan was elected federal deputy in 2022, but had his mandate revoked after a decision by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), in May 2023.
Unanimously, the court understood that Deltan Dallagnol requested dismissal from the position of public prosecutor while administrative processes were being processed that could make him ineligible, if convicted.
