On October 8, Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) ordered Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the presidential candidate who will face off against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the run-off election on Sunday, to delete social posts linking Lula to the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) drug cartel, which the US government considers a “Foreign Terrorist Organization.”
But Lula is linked to PCC figures through his accountant, João Muniz Leite, who prepared the president’s income tax returns, kept the books of Lula’s longtime lawyer Roberto Teixeira for 14 years, keeps those of Lula’s son, Fábio Luís, and who São Paulo prosecutors say helped the cartel launder money. Muniz Leite’s office sits in the same building that housed Lula’s son’s companies.
Sharing an accountant with PCC figures doesn’t mean that the PCC controls Lula, who vigorously objected to the US government labeling the PCC a “terrorist organization.”
But the court went too far in claiming no factual basis linked Lula to the PCC. Even CNN Brasil, which Lula’s critics regard as friendly to him, republished an Estadão article headlined, “Accountant linked to Lula is suspected of laundering R$ 16 million in lottery with PCC.”
Moreover, São Paulo prosecutors this month charged Senival Moura, a city councilman from Lula’s Workers’ Party (PT), and 20 others with laundering PCC money through Transunião, a São Paulo bus company, BNews São Paulo reported on October 2.
Prosecutors called him a “central piece” (“peça central”) of the company; Metrópoles, reporting his June arrest, had described him as “a hidden leader” (“um líder oculto”) of it. His lawyer, Márcio Sayeg, said he “never belonged to a criminal organization and never had ties to the PCC” (“jamais integrou organização criminosa, jamais manteve vínculo com o PCC”).
And the PT’s name had come up in PCC cases before. In 2014, the party’s São Paulo executive expelled state deputy Luiz Moura after police caught him at a meeting with suspected PCC members. And in 2019, investigators used a wiretap to record a PCC boss saying, “The PT had serious dialogue with us, bro” (“O PT tinha diálogo com nois cabuloso, mano”).
Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who ordered mass censorship of Bolsonaro allies, and who is implicated in a sweeping banking fraud scandal, oversaw censorship of the Lula-PCC link in 2022....
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Este não é o Dalai-lama beijando uma criança e sugerindo meter a língua dentro da boca deste garoto ?
Se isso é o que fazem as claras imaginem o que fazem no oculto ?
Estude sobre satanismo e ocultismo!
Hj, esse lider gigante, a quem tenho a honra de chamar de amigo, completa mais um ano. Aquele que me deu uma das maiores oportunidades e quem primeiro acreditou em mim como governador de SP. Presidente @jairbolsonaro , que esse dia seja marcado por muitas bençãos e grande alegria
Antes e depois do trabalho de recuperação da Mogi-Bertioga (SP-098), que havia sido severamente atingida pelos deslizamentos do Litoral Norte. Trabalho eficiente que permitiu que a ligação fosse restabelecida um mês e meio antes do previsto. Parabéns ao @_dersp e a @semilsp