Rodrigo Pacheco: If there is an allegation by a cooperator, in the context of a plea bargain or cooperation agreement, made through his lawyers to the competent authorities, it will be for Your Excellency to defend yourself against an allegation that may be made, through the available legal means, seeking to demonstrate your innocence with respect to that alleged fact and the reason for the inclusion of a non‑existent fact in the scope of a plea agreement.
Rodrigo Pacheco: This is a reality that presents itself and is, in a certain way, commonplace in the legal world, where there is an allegation rebutted by someone who is accused, justly or not, truthfully or not.
Now, on the other hand, if we are possibly facing an alleged fact in a widely circulated magazine that does not exist within the scope of an official process, that was not alleged by the cooperator or by his lawyer, that was not alleged by the authorities responsible for the investigative process, whether the police or the Public Ministry, that does not exist in the legal world nor in the real world; that is an invented fact and was taken to a mass‑circulation press so that the whole of Brazil could hear this untrue, fabricated fact, then, in this second hypothesis, President Davi Alcolumbre, we are facing a very serious matter that even exceeds the affront to the figure of Senator Davi Alcolumbre.
Rodrigo Pacheco: That constitutes an offense, a coercion, a constraint, an attempt to criminalize a head of a branch of government, a President of the Senate, who, for some reason, is being coerced by means that I dare to call mafioso – mafioso – of gangsterism, by someone who invents a fact and who constrains an entire institution, constrains the figure of a Senator and also constrains the very apparatus of justice, because it potentially constrains whoever is negotiating a plea agreement in which that fact simply was not stated.
Rodrigo Pacheco: So, at this moment, it is incumbent upon Your Excellency, in addition to here affirming the absolute lack of basis of this fact that Your Excellency says never existed, to, from your position as President of the Senate, urge the competent and responsible authorities to respond officially whether there is any information, official or unofficial, regarding the content that was published by the magazine over the weekend.