Former Rio de Janeiro governor Sergio Cabral, who has served six years and more than 420 years in prison for corruption, may be released from prison this Saturday and placed under house arrest.
The ruling by Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court takes effect today.
Sergio Cabral admitted before the trial that he bought votes to be chosen as the host of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. Football 2014, will now use the electronic bracelet under house arrest, not in prison.
Cabral was charged in about thirty proceedings, and in the six years he was in prison he accumulated more than 20 convictions, which added up to more than 420 years in prison, some of which were reviewed by a Brazilian judge.
By a two-to-three vote, the justices found Cabral Exceeded the time of detention in a closed regimeThat is why they canceled the arrest warrant and sent the case to be analyzed by the Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro.
Cabral’s arrest warrant was issued in 2016 by then-federal judge Sergio Moro, who was responsible for the internationally known Lava Jato operation that jailed Luis Inacio Lula da Silva for 580 days. Today the president-elect of Brazil and with no impunity.
Sergio Cabral’s activism did not end in prison, as during his incarceration, the former governor was accused of receiving privileges ranging from having a cell phone, taking orders from luxury restaurants to installing a 65-inch television. Your cell.
The representatives of the public ministry also condemned that the former politician received frequent visits from members of parliament, bypassing the necessary procedures for prison and judicial protection for these types of meetings. The abuses committed led to Sergio Cabral going to six different prisons in Brazil.
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