Former Petrobras President Sentenced to 7 Years and 9 Months in Prison

Written by Paulo Nogueira

Published on 20/06/2019 at 01:00

Updated on 19/06/2019 at 21:40

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TRF Reduces Sentence, But Maintains Conviction of Former Petrobras President Aldemir Bendine. The Sentence Was Reduced from 11 Years to 7 Years and 9 Months.

The 8th Panel of the Federal Regional Court (TRF) of the 4th Region, based in Porto Alegre, decided this Wednesday, June 19, to reduce from 11 years to 7 years and 9 months the prison sentence of former Petrobras and Banco do Brasil president Aldemir Bendine, in one of the cases of Operation Lava Jato.

The panel accepted an appeal filed by Bendine’s defense and acquitted him of the crime of money laundering, but maintained the sentence for passive corruption. According to investigations, Odebrecht allegedly paid R$ 3 million in bribes to obtain benefits in a credit operation for one of the group’s companies in 2015.

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According to the case, the undue advantage was allegedly requested during Bendine’s management at Banco do Brasil and paid when he took over the presidency of the state oil company.

Upon analyzing the case, the panel understood that the accused’s actions did not constitute money laundering. The defense argued that there is no evidence of Bendine’s involvement in soliciting advantages, and that the alleged transfer of funds did not constitute money laundering.

Bendine was convicted in March 2018 by then-judge Sergio Moro, responsible for the Lava Jato cases in Curitiba. In April, he was released following a decision by the Second Panel of the Federal Supreme Court (STF).

With the decision, Bendine’s preventive detention was replaced by precautionary measures, such as appearing in court when summoned, prohibition from leaving the country, surrendering his passport, and prohibiting contact with other individuals implicated in the case.

Bendine had been held in preventive detention at the Pinhais Medical-Penal Complex, located in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, since July 2017.

Bendine is the only former Petrobras president to become the target of a case in Lava Jato. He took over the presidency of Banco do Brasil in April 2009 at the invitation of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The good results during his management of the bank earned him the trust of then-president Dilma Rousseff.

Bendine was appointed to lead Petrobras in February 2015, replacing Graça Foster, with the mission of recovering the state-owned company.

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