The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil annulled the evidence used against the former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glasswho responds to charges of corruption before the Justice of his country, reported the highest Brazilian court.
The magistrate Jose Dias Toffoli extended to Glass a decision to annul the evidence that benefited Brazilian politicians who were also investigated in the mega-corruption case known as Odebrecht, including the current Brazilian vice president, Geraldo Alckmin.
Toffoli Days thus responded to a request from the defense of the Ecuadorian politician after the evidence obtained from an internal system of the Odebrecht construction company They were considered invalid by the high court.
These tests against Jorge Glass “They are null and, therefore, they cannot support the accusations” against him when he was Minister of Strategic Sectors in Ecuadoruttered Toffoli Days.
The evidence against politicians accused of receiving bribes, obtained in the systems Drousys and My Web Day Bused in the collaboration agreement of odebrechtare “contaminated” and “cannot be used”, as decided by the court.
In the decision of the court they were benefited, in addition to alckminthe former governors of Rio de Janeiro Sergio Cabral and Anthony Garotinhowho came to be imprisoned for other cases of corruption.
Servers Drousys and My Web Day B of the Odebrecht Structured Operations Department were used to pay bribes to officials of various Spanish-American governments and were identified by nicknames.
The data from these servers was used to incriminate the current Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvabut the experts of the Federal police They admitted that they could be adulterated and that contributed to annul their convictions.
Glasswho was vice president of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), was released in 2020 from a prison in the Andean city of Latacunga by a court order, despite the fact that the country’s authorities rejected the granting of said benefit.
The former vice president was benefited with a resource from habeas corpus after being sentenced to eight years in prison for corruption cases and after the decision in his favor was confined to house arrest.
