In 2017, Lula was sentenced by then judge Sérgio Moro (current Minister of Justice) to nine and a half years in prison for corruption and money laundering, for being the alleged owner of a property in Guarujá, on the coast of Sao Paulo.
However, the property, or even the ownership of it, was never demonstrated by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) but the former labor leader ended up being convicted for «indeterminate acts.»
Now again the MPF denounced Lula and the coordinator of the Landless Workers Movement (MTST), Guilherme Boulos, for occupation of Guarujá’s residence, on April 16, 2018, by a group linked to that organization.
The news was published by the newspaper O Globo, but the MPF did not release official information because the case was being handled under the secret of justice.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the founder of the Workers’ Party would have encouraged the action by requesting, during a speech delivered in Sao Paulo in January 2018, the «town of Boulos» that would invade Guarujá’s property.
The Brasil 247 portal warns about this new maneuver it calls persecution and federal deputy Margarida Salomão criticizes «the size of the hypocrisy of certain people in the federal prosecutor’s office»
Ironically, Lula commented in 2018 that «if they condemn me, give me at least the apartment. I already asked Guilherme Boulos to send his staff to occupy it. Since it is mine, take care of it.»
On the social network Twitter, the leader of the MTST linked the new MPF initiative to the criminalization of the popular struggle, and advised that «it will not intimidate us or silence us.»
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