The documentary “Amigo Secreto”, which will premiere this Monday (13/6) and will be officially in theaters on Thursday (16/6), had a bombastic excerpt from the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.
Directed by Maria Augusta Ramos, who made “O Trial”, about Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, the film tackles the backstage of the Car Wash operation with complaints against the prosecutors of the task force.
The material provided by Folha are statements made by one of Lava-Jato’s main informants, former Odebrecht executive Alexandrino Alencar. In his testimony for the film, he says he was pushed by prosecutors to involve Lula in her plea deal.
It is the first time that a whistleblower of the operation has publicly released these kinds of statements, although alleged abuses have been insinuated and addressed in STF’s decisions.
Named as a liaison between Odebrecht and the PT, Alencar said the former president was the “main target” of the investigators. “It was a pressure on us,” says the former feature film executive. “And it was clear that the problem was with Lula.”
According to him, the investigators insisted on questions about “Lula’s brother, Lula’s son, I don’t know what to say about Lula, Lula’s lessons [a empreiteira contratou o ex-presidente para falar em diversos eventos]”.
“We used to catch the black ball, ‘ah, you didn’t say enough.’ Back and forth, back and forth. ‘Otherwise [diziam os interrogadores]we do not accept your agreement, “added Alencar.
The statements coincide with reports published at the time of Lava Jato, that the Federal Prosecutor was reluctant to accept the then executive’s complaint because it did not mention politicians in its revelations.
According to Alencar, only after agreeing to talk about Lula did the investigators agree to sign the plea agreement with him.
Among other things, Alexandrino detailed in his testimonials the contractor’s expenses with the works on Lula’s farm in Atibaia between 2010 and 2011.
“If I said more, I would make it up. I would tell a lie like some [delatores] who do you know, notorious, who lied to try to escape, “he says.” I told the truth. I have reached the limit of my truth “.
This truth would have been fundamental for the former president to be sentenced in 2019 to 12 years and 11 months of imprisonment for corruption and money laundering, in a trial that had the accusation of Alexandrino Alencar as the main element of accusation.
Presented without further context, the complaint appears serious. But it is important to contextualize to avoid denial, so in vogue in today’s political polarization.
As relevant as the new statement is, it is to underline that, despite the tone of denunciation, Alexandrino Alencar has not denied any of his allegations to Lava-Jato. Information he only confessed after being pressured to reveal what he knew. All true, according to him.
Alexandrino Alencar also made another complaint in the film “Amigo Secreto” to reinforce the story of Lava-Jato’s politicization. According to the former executive, the people he did not name were exempted from testimony when they mentioned Aécio Neves’s name in their statements.
“I’m not going to say the saint’s name. But there is a colleague of mine who was arrested in Curitiba, he arrived there, people [investigadores] he started asking about box two [recursos doados para políticos sem registro na contabilidade oficial]. He [colega de Alexandrino] said: ‘This is for Aécio Neves’. The moment he spoke, them [interrogadores] she got up and let him go. Is this Lava Jato? Is it an anti-corruption system? Or is it a direct question? “, Alencar stressed.
The former contractor also said his statement detailed “several cases of slush funds. Infiniti.” However, no other named politician was indicted. “Nothing happened to anyone. It happened to me. [políticos]nothing happened”.
This is why Alencar says he is convinced that he was arrested only because Lava Jato’s goal was to get to Lula.
“The way they did it … How did Alexandrino get here? They start monitoring me, touching my phone, Lula’s,” he says.
He recalled that former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Roberto Costa and money changer Alberto Youssef filed charges in prison, citing him as the Odebrecht executive who would be the operator of the contractor’s bribes. As a result, Alexandrino’s arrest was changed from temporary to preventive, with no date for his release, which generated pressure for him to cooperate.
“That simple,” sums up the former film executive.
Again, you need to know the context.
To begin with, only those who were in custody made a plea bargain. As soon as this practice was banned by the STF, the lawyers advised their clients to remain silent and wait for the legal term of temporary detention to expire. It was the end of the informants.
Additionally, after Lula’s arrest, the Bolsonaro government, the Attorney General, and the Federal Congress also worked to change laws, end the task force, and move several pieces of the Federal Police Board, which made investigations difficult. on other politicians. . This answers another question raised by Alexandrino Alencar about the impunity of the other defendant.
In 2016 Alexandrino Alencar was sentenced by Moro to 13 years and six months of imprisonment, for the crimes of money laundering and active corruption. With the agreement and the payment of fines, the time was reduced to 6 years and six months.
He has already served a year in the closed regime, two and a half years in the semi-open regime, and now he is doing the rest in the open regime. You can leave the house normally on weekdays, without ankle bracelet. But it is forbidden to go out on the street on weekends.
His sentence remains in force, despite the STF having extinguished Lula’s trials, in a Kafkaesque paradox that uses the expression “delimitation of judgment” to justify itself.
The suspension of the sentences against Lula took place in sessions punctuated by speeches by minister-judges with citations to the leak of messages from Lava-Jato prosecutors, obtained by a hacker. Considered illegal and prohibited for use in court by the criminal trial code, they served the STF to “prove” (verb used in a court vote) examples that led former judge Sergio Moro to be considered a suspect in the trial of former president. .
Maria Augusta Ramos’ film, co-produced and distributed by Vitrine Filmes, focuses primarily on these messages. It reports the routine of journalists Leandro Demori, from The Intercept Brasil website, and Carla Jiménez, Regian Oliveira and Marina Rossi, of El País Brasil, in covering the leaked messages from Lava-Jato members. Reports on the material became known as the Vaza-Jato scandal in 2019.
Maria Augusta Ramos has directed a dozen documentaries, some of them internationally awarded, such as “Justiça” (2004), “Juízo” (2007) and “O Processo” (2018), to name three focusing on Brazil from the point of view of its elite legal environment.
Source: Terra
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