The new erga omnes normative standard instituted by “Car Wash”
Operation “car wash”, for sure, meant a radical change in the way Brazilian criminal Justice Works. The less lenient treatment with those investigated, the recurrent appeal against preventive prison and the broad use of plea bargaining may be its most outstanding features. In a society outworn by corruption, the popular support to the operation was […]
Márcio Thomaz Bastos
In 1988, when I was still an intern of the Prosecution Office of the 1st Jury Trial, there was a great stir in the room of the prosecutors at the lunch time. The then prosecutor Saulo de Castro Abreu Filho would face Márcio Thomaz Bastos in a moment. “I´ll face the best”, said the prosecutor. […]
Advocacy and Laundering: some misunderstanding should be removed
The electronic journal Consultor Jurídico published, on the last days, some articles related to the advocacy subject and money laundering[1]. If either the Council for Financial Activities Control (Coaf) or lawyers have their common points, there are manifestations, especially on the part of the lawyers that disseminate alarmist concerns that do not have connection to […]