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08 March 2021 The Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil overturned all the criminal convictions against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva issued by the judges of Curitiba as part of the Lava Jato investigation, the Brazilian tangentopoli.
Which means the recovery of his political rights and the possibility of running again in the presidential elections of 2022 because the 2018 sentence prevented him from competing.
For those sentences Lula spent 580 days in prison.
The decision was taken by judge Edson Fachin, a well-known defender of Lava Jato, who considered the federal justice of Paranà "not competent" for those trials.
The decision concerns an apartment in the seaside resort of Guarujà, on the coast of the state of São Paulo;
a country house in San Paolo di Atibaia;
and an investigation into the Lula Institute, founded by the former president.
Lula was accused of receiving bribes in cash and property from some of the construction companies involved in the Lava Jato scandal.
Lula, 75, has always declared himself innocent and the victim of political persecution by the "Lava Jato" investigation pool and by the former judge Sergio Moro who, after having sentenced the former worker-president, became minister of Justice of the government of Jair Bolsonaro.