President Lula asks the Congress for a bingo definition again

Among people involved, there were a brother and a godfather of the president, Genival Inácio da Silva and Dario Morelli Filho, respectively. The president has already mantained the same position during Hurricane Operation, which also caught a band dedicated to the operation of illegal casinos.

“While the issue is not defined, bingos will continue having a legal part and a clandestine one. It will be the industry of the appeals for protection”, said the president.

According to Lula, the vagueness generates the distrust in the sense that games of chance operators launder money. He also reminded that, due to information released by the Federal Police, he issued a provisional measure forbidding the activity, which was rejected by the Congress.

Yesterday, in India, Lula said it is necessary to wait for the result of the police investigations, but remarked that his brother is innocent. The president's brother is involved in the Operation Jaque Mate investigation for influence peddling. The police suspects that Moreli Jr had been favoured.

Benedito Tolosa, lawyer of Genival Inácio da Silva, said that the police search resulted in the discovery of papers related to employment requests that his client receives because he is the president's brother, and defended the action of the Federal Police.

Other two accused went to prison, businessman Nilton Cesar Servo and his son Victor Emanuel Servo.