Lula released after questioning, was not indicted – Rai News

Former Brazilian President Lula speaks for three hours with the investigation judges “Lava Jato” who had placed his accompanying forced to give evidence about a case of alleged corruption. His party had defended it with a tweet: “political prisoner.” Police: “We have the evidence.” The prosecutor: “Millions in bribes and kickbacks to the PT”. The President Dilma Rousseff convene an emergency meeting with ministers of PT

Lula (Stock photo AP / Andre Penner)

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March 4, 2016 After three hours of interrogation, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who had been picked up by officers this morning at dawn they had done broke into the house in Sao Paulo former Brazilian president, was released. Against him was not then issued an arrest warrant nor was indicted. After leaving the police station at the Congonhas airport, Lula headed the headquarters of his party, the Workers ‘Party.

The tweets of a Brazilian journalist, retweeted by the Workers’ Party

the former president has been subjected to the accompanying measure compulsory for questioning on suspicion that he received property as part of the corruption case of Petrobras scheme.

“There is evidence that Lula received goods coming from Petrobras scheme”, the statement of the prosecution, which refers to an apartment and a country house in the town of Atibaia. The investigation also covers “payments made to former President by the companies under investigation” justified as suppositories donations and fees of conference. The possible crimes on which investigates – and for which was also prepared Lula ransacked – are corruption and money laundering.

Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil, convened a emergency meeting with the federal executive members of her most loyal to examine the scandal ‘Petrobras’ developments after the detention of the predecessor and political mentor Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva by the police: attended by managers of the Office of Presidency, Jaques Wagner, and the general, Ricardo Berzoini Secretary, Information Minister, Edinho Silva, the Advocate general of the Federation, José Eduardo Cardozo, all belonging to the Workers’ Party in power, the more the independent Wellington Cesar Lima Silva, just took office to Justice.

While officially there is still a hold of government position on the dash of the incident the leader of the formation of the majority, Rui Falcao, urged militants to “mobilize” in front in what he called a “serious moment in which you are mounting a political operation and and a media spectacle around Lula and his family”. Meanwhile scuffles between supporters and detractors of the same Lula were recorded in Sao Paulo in front of the house of the latter, recently raided before, despite the intervention of the police, there were several wounded.