Milton Ribeiro will ask for freedom in custody hearing tomorrow, says defense

The defense of former Minister of Education Milton Ribeiro, who had his preventive detention decreed this Wednesday (22), spoke about the case requesting that the hearing be held by videoconference in São Paulo and said that he will file a request for habeas. corpus.

“I am looking for copies of the process to be able to make a habeas corpus because, even without knowing the case in depth, it seems to me that this preventive detention is not contemporaneous (the facts took place a long time ago) and there would be no reason or concrete reason for this custody. early,” said attorney Daniel Bialski.

Bialski said he was “triggered earlier today while the Federal Police were carrying out the search and the arrest warrant.”

According to the lawyer, Milton Ribeiro has already signed the power of attorney. Bialski also said he will accompany the former minister to the designated custody hearing.

The defense also made a request for a view to the judge of the 15th Federal Court to try to have him stay in Santos (SP), where the former minister resides, and that the custody hearing, which will take place this Thursday (23), at 2 pm, via videoconference — without the need to travel to Brasília. Read the ex-minister’s custody hearing request here

remember the case

The former minister was preventively arrested this Wednesday (22) in Santos. The warrant was issued as part of a Federal Police (PF) operation that took place on Wednesday.

According to the PF, the “Acesso Paid” operation aims to investigate the practice of influence peddling and corruption for the release of public resources from the National Education Development Fund (FNDE), linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC) .

The preventive arrest warrant issued against Milton Ribeiro cites the crimes of passive corruption, malfeasance, administrative advocacy and influence peddling.