The Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, asked for the investigation into former federal deputy Carla Zambelli to be closed for alleged coercion and obstruction of investigation. Last year, the Bolsonarist left the country and promised to act like former federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro and commentator Paulo Figueiredowhich articulated sanctions against Brazil.
For Gonet, Zambelli’s promises were only in the speech. “Although Carla Zambelli Salgado de Oliveira has insinuated, in several interviews and publications on social networks, the plan to convince European authorities to influence Brazilian institutions, the investigative efforts did not indicate the effective materialization of the criminal conduct”, wrote the prosecutor, in a document sent to Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
The archiving request also highlights that the former deputy is imprisoned in Rome and that her extradition request is under trial in Italy. “The fulfillment of the former parliamentarian’s arrest, associated with the other evidence collected, reinforces the emptying the criminal potential of the investigated person’s actions”, says another excerpt from the document.
In September last year, the Federal Police (PF) had already taken a stance against the investigation. The corporation stated that Zambelli did not take effective actions to coerce the Court.
“Although the intention to frustrate the application of criminal law was verbalized, Carla Zambelli’s behavior, unless better judged, did not go beyond the field of rhetoric, with no proof of effective success in adopting expedients, contacts, articulations or measures capable of compromising the regular progress of criminal proceedings”, says the PF report.
Zambelli extradition
The Rome Court of Appeal in the trial on the extradition of former deputy Carla Zambelli. The court must now meet to deliberate a sentence, which will be released in the coming days.
The former deputy has been in prison since July 29 in Italy, country from which she has a passport and where she fled after being sentenced to prison by the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
Zambelli left Brazil days before the last appeals against the 10-year prison sentence were exhausted for the invasion of the National Justice Council (CNJ) systems. The crime occurred in 2023 and, according to investigations, it was committed at the behest of Zambelli.
*with information from Agência Brasil
