Ricardo Lewandowski, minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), ordered the end of three investigations against Lula| Photo: Disclosure/STF

Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), determined the closure of three investigations against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). Of the actions, two involved investigations by Lava Jato about alleged irregular donations to the Lula Institute and another investigated the purchase of 36 Swedish fighter jets by the government of then-president Dilma Rousseff (PT).

The three actions had already been suspended by Lewandowski in 2021 and 2022 and were closed on Friday (17). Of the two Lava Jato investigations, one investigated donations by Odebrecht to the Lula Institute and the other the purchase of land for the institute. Both began in the Federal Court of Paraná and were transferred to the Federal Court of Brasília after the STF decided that the Court of Curitiba did not have competence to analyze the PT’s cases.

The investigation of the fighter jets was being processed in the Federal Court of Brasilia and was suspended in March 2022. Lewandowski made the decision because he understood that there was undue action between members of Lava Jato in Curitiba and the prosecutors in the case of the fighter jets. In the sentence, he cited conversations exchanged between them obtained in the Spoofing operation, which targeted the hackers who invaded the prosecutors’ accounts.

On February 10 of this year, Lewandowski also suspended a criminal action that investigates alleged irregular donations of BRL 4 million to the Lula Institute, also in the context of Lava Jato investigations. The process was pending in the Federal Court of Brasilia and involved the director of the institute, Paulo Okamoto, and former minister Antonio Palocci, among others.