Most of the bail measures applied to Joe Berardo and the lawyer André Luíz Gomes were declared extinct in the Caixa Geral de Depósitos case by the criminal investigation judge at the request of the Public Ministry (MP).
The main reason is that the term for such coercive measures is one year. As they were applied on July 2, 2021, after the arrest of the two defendants, the MP promoted in recent days their extinction before Judge Carlos Alexandre, who agreed to the request, reads a statement published on the website of the Center for Investigation and Criminal Action Department. (DCIAP).
Berardo is released but will have to post a bail of 5 million. You can use goods or be someone else to pay, “could even be Santa Casa”
The only exception refers to the 5 million euro bail that Joe Berardo had to provide in the file. As the danger of flight continues to exist, the MP promoted the continuity of it, with the agreement of the investigating judge.
A request from the MP for periodic presentations of Joe Berardo to the PSP is still pending. His defense, led by lawyer Paulo Saragoça da Matta, will still have to rule on the matter. Only then will it be possible for the judge to make a decision.
Joe Berardo is thus free to travel abroad and visit the offices of his companies.
André Luiz Gomes, who will now be able to talk to his client Joe Berardo, will only have the minimum coercive measure: the IRR. He is thus free to travel, to visit all the offices of the legal entities where he held positions and sees that the Justice returns the bail of 1 million euros that he was obliged to deposit.
Berardo. 140 thousand euros in bills and the family under suspicion
The DCIAP also explains in its statement that the investigation team is made up of seven elements: three prosecutors, an inspector from the Judicial Police and three inspectors from the Tax Authority. It should be noted that the team of magistrates, coordinated by prosecutor Inês Bonina, is not exclusive.
It is these elements that have to analyze the more than “70 digital media with a size greater than 3.5 terabytes, from which it was necessary to extract the respective files -in a number that exceeds 40 million- so that they can be put validly together with the records, and converted to a readable format”.
“To the aforementioned documentation is added another, also of a very complex nature and of great volume, made up of several hundred thousand pages and relating, in particular, to accounting and banking elements,” the statement read.
The Nucleus of Technical Assistance (NAT) of the Public Ministry also collaborates in the process. However, and “in addition to not having the necessary means,” it has a national scope and, to that extent, does not have the necessary capacity to, on its own, deal with the volume of work required by the DCIAP and the high technical complexity of the processes under their charge”.
Source: Observadora
