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Supreme Court Justice Authorizes Maluf to Serve Sentence in House Arrest
03/29/2018 - 11h19
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LETÍCIA CASADO
FROM BRASÍLIA
On Wednesday, March 28, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Dias Toffoli authorized Congressman Paulo Maluf (PP-SP), 86, to serve his sentence in house arrest. Maluf has been in the jail of Papuda, in Brasília, since December 2017.
In his decision, Justice Toffoli said that Maluf's defense presented documents that prove that the congressman "is having severe problems related to his health in prison."
As he granted the injunction (a provisional decision), Justice Toffoli stressed that the Code of Criminal Procedure "admits the concession of house arrest to preventive prisoners who are extremely weak due to severe disease."
Maluf was convicted - he is not a preventive prisoner. However, Toffoli said that "the circumstances of this case" set Maluff in the condition of someone who is serving his sentence beforehand, "because, as the defense claims, there is no final and unappealable decision yet."
"And, in this point, I consider the defense's claim plausible," Toffoli wrote. He added that Maluf's case also has a "humanitarian fundament," as the congressman suffers of several severe illnesses.
Leonardo Benassatto/Reuters | ||
Member of Brazil's Lower House of Congress Paulo Maluf (2nd R) is escorted by Federal Police as he leaves the Medical Legal Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil December 20, 2017. |
In May 2017, Paulo Maluf was sentenced to seven years, nine months and ten days in prison and ousted for money laundering.
The accusation states that, while he was the mayor of São Paulo (from 1993 to 1996), Maluf concealed money embezzled from the construction of Água Espraiada Avenue (currently called Roberto Marinho Avenue).
Translated by THOMAS MUELLO