Tacla Duran delivers recordings against Moro – 03/27/2023 – Mônica Bergamo

Lawyer Rodrigo Tacla Duran, who worked for the contractor Odebrecht, handed over to Justice photos and recordings that would compromise the former Lava Jato judge and Senator Sergio Moro (União Brasil-PR).

Prosecutors asked that the documents be preserved under level four secrecy, one of the most restrictive.

Tacla Duran worked from 2011 to 2016 for Odebrecht and has been appointed by the MPF as a financial operator of the company’s schemes. Since then, he has been making a series of accusations.

In an interview with Sheet in 2017, Tacla Duran accused labor lawyer Carlos Zucolotto Junior, friend and best man at Sergio Moro’s wedding, of mediating his parallel negotiations with the Operation Lava Jato task force.

According to Tacla Duran, the conversations between him and Zucolotto would involve mitigating the sentence and reducing the fine that should be paid in a plea bargain.

The money from slush two, still according to Duran, would serve Zucolotto to “take care” of the people who would help him in the negotiation, which would be done with the Lava Jato task force in Curitiba.

Although he was not accused of anything, nor mentioned in the complaint, Sergio Moro took the lead in Zucolotto’s defense and reacted emphatically.

By means of a note, also published in the Sheetthe then judge stated: “Lawyer Carlos Zucolotto Jr. is my personal friend and I regret that his name is used by an outlaw accused and in an irresponsible journalistic article to denigrate me”.

At the time, the Curitiba task force also released a note with eleven paragraphs in which it said “repudiate” Tacla Duran’s accusations against Moro’s friend.

On the 16th of this month, Judge Eduardo Appio, of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba, decided to revoke the preventive detention of lawyer Rodrigo Tacla Duran.

The determination came in the wake of a decision issued this week by STF (Supreme Federal Court) Minister Ricardo Lewandowski, who suspended five Operation Lava Jato processes that used evidence presented by Odebrecht whistleblowers.

The evidence had already been declared invalid by the Second Panel of the Supreme Court in 2021, in an action filed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

When judging the case of Tacla Duran, Judge Eduardo Appio cited the decision of the superior court and stated that preventive detention is an exceptional measure within the Brazilian legal system.

“The constitutional presumption is of innocence and not the other way around”, pointed out the magistrate. “The citizen Tacla Duran, like any other person, deserves and has the constitutional right to receive from the Brazilian State a serene, apolitical and republican jurisdiction”, he continued.

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