The lawyer Soraia Mendes and the businessman Leonardo Bortoletto debated, on Thursday (21), in The Great Debate (Monday to Friday, at 11pm), if the Should the PGR reject Vorcaro’s plea, as the PF did?
the proposal for a plea bargain by Daniel Vorcaro, imprisoned since March 4 for financial fraud. According to information obtained, the corporation understood that the former banker did not bring any news in relation to what the investigators had already gathered. Negotiations, however, continue with the PGR (Attorney General’s Office), which still shows resistance to the agreement.
The assessment of those who follow the negotiations is that resistance is part of the negotiation process. At the current stage, the process involves offers, counter-offers and Vorcaro’s lawyers. As the holder of the criminal action, the PGR has the prerogative to conduct the negotiation independently of the PF and continue with the negotiations even in the face of the Federal Police’s refusal. If the body decides to reject collaboration, the tendency is for negotiations to be terminated.
Debate on the validity of the plea bargain
Lawyer Soraia Mendes highlighted the importance of understanding the preliminary steps involved in an award-winning collaboration. “The plea bargain demands a series of steps that are preliminary steps”, he stated. According to her, the process involves conversations and the offering of information that needs to be truly relevant to resolving doubts that arise during the investigation or capable of leading to new investigative directions.
Soraia Mendes also highlighted that Vorcaro’s represents a central element in the case. “It wasn’t just a single cell phone, a single Vorcaro device that was seized,” he noted. For the lawyer, much of what the former banker could reveal in a statement could now be transformed into documentary evidence to be included in the records of a possible lawsuit, which makes the scenario even more complex for assessing the relevance of the agreement.
Should PGR follow the same path as the PF?
Leonardo Bortoletto expressed his understanding that the PGR must reject the complaint in the manner in which it was presented, just as the Federal Police did. “I understand that the Federal Police rejects the arguments put forward in that document because they do not collaborate effectively, they do not bring real news”, he stated. Bortoleto positively classified the PF’s stance of not accepting insufficient information.
The businessman believes that Vorcaro still has a lot to add beyond what appears on the seized cell phones. “I doubt that cell phones alone will be enough and nothing more can be added,” he said. According to him, reserved meetings and unregistered meetings may have been decisive in the consummation of what he classified as “the biggest financial crime in the history of this country”, and it is exactly this type of information that the PF and PGR seek to obtain.
