Who is Gabriela Hardt, who acts in the PCC case and Lula’s action – 03/23/2023 – Politics

Federal judge Gabriela Hardt, responsible for the arrest warrant against suspects of preparing an attack against Senator Sergio Moro (União Brasil-PR), served for years alongside the current congressman in the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba.

Hardt even sentenced cases of Operation Lava Jato, including the lawsuit over renovations paid by contractors at a site frequented by President Lula in Atibaia (SP).

She remains on the Federal Court responsible for Lava Jato, but she was dispatched in the case of the PCC because she was temporarily assigned to the 9th Federal Court of Curitiba due to the vacation of another magistrate.

In 2018, Lula was interrogated by Hardt when he was arrested and even had a falling out with her at that hearing. “If you start in that tone with me, we’re going to have a problem. Let’s start again”, she said, at the time.

In February 2019, the sentence on the site was issued by the judge, condemning Lula to 12 years and 11 months in prison for corruption and money laundering. The sentence was extended in the second instance, but the process was annulled from the beginning in 2021 by order of the Federal Supreme Court.

Hardt temporarily took over the operation’s cases when Moro resigned, at the end of 2018, to be minister in the Jair Bolsonaro government.

In 2019, another judge took over as holder of the rod, Luiz Bonat, but Hardt continued to dispatch investigations and operation procedures.

An ordinance of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region established that year that it would act in aid of Bonat, in the stages prior to the presentation of complaints by Lava Jato and subsequent to the publication of the sentence.

She also took charge of the Federal Court during vacation periods and on leave, including when Moro was in charge.

In the judgment on the Atibaia site, she received a series of criticisms for mistakenly calling the rural property an “apartment” in the text, in what was interpreted by Lula’s defense as a plagiarism of the judgment in the triplex case, issued by the current senator in 2017.

In another part of the decision, the judge mentioned, as two different people, Léo Pinheiro and José Aldemário, with Léo being the nickname of the accused, former president of the construction company OAS.

In a document, the judge stated that these were simple “material errors” and justified the “excessive volume of work during the period of preparation of the sentence”.

The second instance judges rejected dismissing the case based on these points.

This Thursday (23), President Lula said that the PF operation to dismantle the attack is “another set-up by Moro”. “I’m going to research, I’m going to find out the reason for the sentence. I even found out that the judge wasn’t even active when she gave her opinion to him. But we’ll wait for that”, stated the PT candidate.