Exit occurs after Federal Police reject plea bargain proposal presented by businessman
The lawyer known as Juca, left the defense of the founder of Banco Master, . He of the banker on March 13, replacing Pierpaolo Bottini, from Bottini & Tamasauskas. Lawyer Sérgio Leonardo, however, remains on the team.
Departure takes place days after the Vorcaro’s plea bargain proposal. The PF assessed that the founder of Banco Master omitted information.
At the beginning of the month, Vorcaro’s defense to the PF (Federal Police) and the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) the document, in which he undertakes to return R$40 billion, but with payment in installments over 10 years. The assessment by the Federal Supreme Court was that the deadline was “very elastic”which would make it difficult to immediately restore public coffers.
Until then, José Luis de Oliveira Lima’s strategy was to buy time to try, over the next few months or years, to reverse the process. The defense plan consisted of finding loopholes in the investigation to argue possible procedural nullities that could benefit the businessman.
Both in the STF and in the PGR there was already dissatisfaction with the way Juca had been presenting the collaboration proposal. The technical assessment was that excessive installments remove the effectiveness of asset recovery, one of the pillars of the whistleblower law.
An initial analysis by the PF and PGR on the usefulness of the data and information is necessary to eventually forward the agreement for approval by the STF.
