Brazil’s supreme court has ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to wear an ankle monitor.
The decision came as the former president’s home and party headquarters in Brasilia were searched on Friday.
Members of Bolsonaro’s right-wing Liberal Party said he was also ordered to stop using social media and end communications with diplomats.
That’s just false.
They rewrote the law so that the judges that judged were the wrong ones, decided that this invalidated the judgement that already happened, and that no existing judge had the authority to rule over the case. He wasn’t deemed non-guilty of anything, no evidence was found wrong, and no crime was corrected.
I’m not saying he wasn’t guilty, I’m saying he was an operator in a system that was already corrupt rather than doing something unusually criminal. I am no expert, so please correct me if I have misunderstood something.
As I read it, he was found guilty of taking campaign bribes from wealthy oil businesses because it was a requirement for having any chance of getting elected in Brazil. Petrobras had essentially become a criminal organization that was controlling huge numbers of politicians, and their support was a requirement to win elections. Lula seems to have participated in the corrupt system, but it does not seem like he was the person who made it be that way.
When I say his arrest was for political reasons, I mean the embarrassment of him being drug out of his home in his underpants seemed to be more about damaging the reputation of the Workers Party rather than any suggestion that he was the kind of criminal who needed to be taken by a forceful raid. I probably worded my first post a little poorly.
The police, persecution and two independent levels of the Judiciary found him to be the central player on the Petrobras scandal that you talked about (and either way, it was created while he was the president). He was the central player on the scandal of car companies paying him (personally) to avoid paying taxes. He inherited the position of central player on the scandal of construction companies paying bribes.
There were dozens of other crimes. He was right on the middle in most of them. Including the one where he used taxpayer money to bribe representatives and senators.
Cut the bullshit.
No bullshit, just ignorance. Thank you for the extra information, no need to be rude.