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English version. Original in Portuguese

Plea bargains may cover up the shady interests of informants

Translated from the original.

In a sector where diversions exceeding US$ 3.3 billion have been pointed to, as suggested in his plea cooperation agreement by former Odebrecht group executive Hilberto Mascarenhas, who was in charge of the so-called Structured Operations Division, which controlled the undue advantages paid to politicians, imagine the concrete possibility of informants attempting to cover up their own or third parties' funds through false accusations against people they know to be innocent.

It does not seem improbable to me that, in a scenario of political turbulence, false accusations occur, for the most varied reasons. It is necessary to separate the wheat from the chaff, in a universe of so many names, investigations, and diverse accusations. The thesis that the entire political class, indistinctly, would be corrupt serves whom?