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The Brazilian Justice ratified and increased to 17 years and 1 month in prison a second sentence issued last February against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the crimes of passive corruption and money laundering.

The three magistrates of a court of second instance of the city of Porto Alegre voted unanimously in favor of raising Lula's sentence to 17 years and 1 month in prison against the 12 years and 11 months in prison that had been imposed on him First instance.

The members of the eighth room of the Federal Regional Court of the Fourth Region were unanimous at the conclusion that it was proven that Lula benefited from the works with about one million reais (about $ 236,000) that the construction companies Odebrecht and OAS made in a house field located in the state of Sao Paulo , in exchange for favoring companies in contracts with the state-owned Petrobras .

Before raising their respective considerations on the conviction, the three judges denied the defense's requests to annul the sentence based on a recent ruling by the Supreme Court.

According to that opinion, in a process in which a defendant cooperates with the justice against another defendant, he will present his final allegation, which did not occur during the trial of Lula in the first instance in the so-called 'case of Atibaia' .

However, the case instructor, Joao Pedro Gebran Neto , said that in this case "at any time the existence of any type of damage was demonstrated with the reversal of the order" of the statements of the accused, an argument that was supported by The other two judges.

On Lula, 74, already weighs a conviction ratified in the third instance, after the justice took for granted that he received an apartment on a beach in the town of Guarujá , in the state of Sao Paulo, in exchange for favors to the OAS construction company in contracts with the oil company Petrobras.

In that case, the leader of the Workers Party (PT) came to spend 580 days in prison , but was released about three weeks ago after being benefited by a decision of the highest court of the country, which reviewed its own jurisprudence and He considered that a convicted person cannot begin serving the sentence until all remedies are exhausted.

In that process, known as the 'case of the triplex' , Lula, who has already served one sixth of the sentence, still has an allegation pending in the Supreme Court, while in the 'case of Atibaia' he has two resources left that may Perform in freedom.

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