Africa-Press – Angola. The judge in the case called “Caso Lussaty”, Andrade da Silva, yesterday warned defense lawyers not to turn the Luanda District Court into a “field of attacks and abuses of professional ethics and ethics”.
Speaking at the beginning of the oral arguments session, he said that lawyers cannot and should not attack each other, uttering offenses that tarnish the procedures for the search for material truth, which is the objective of the interveners.
“We want to make it understood that the stage of oral arguments is a moment to, technically, describe and observe the evidence of the facts and not an opportunity to attack people who have the same mission in court”, he stressed. respecting deontology and professional ethics will not be allowed to expose their allegation. “There must be respect among professionals to, together, raise the audience to a technical level”, said the judge of the case, emphasizing that justice is based on respect among the stakeholders.
The Defense
In the allegation, the defendant João Muhungo’s lawyer, Hélder Fula, said that the Public Ministry indicted his constituent, in the crimes of criminal association, undue receipt of advantages, embezzlement, abuse of power and money laundering, without, however, presenting material evidence.
According to the lawyer, the defendant João Muhungo, in the tasks he performed, it made no sense to commit the types of crimes that are indicted: “A fact that puts us in a certain way at ease, because at no point in the allegations did the Public Ministry deprive ( referred to) the constituent”.
“It is not possible for someone to perform functions in a non-existent section, much less perform any activity in areas where there are their own managers, with attributions appointed by superiors”, stressed the defense lawyer.
Hélder Fula said in court that the prosecution of the Public Ministry has many “irregularities”, not only from the point of view of preparatory instruction, but also or even in the phase of discussions and judgment.
The defense stressed, in the preparatory instruction, that the Public Prosecutor’s Office did not fulfill its fundamental task conferred on the Criminal Procedure Code, which states that an accused, in order to be heard in a preparatory instruction, must be notified and informed about the crimes of which he is indicted. and who accused him.
According to the lawyer, the Public Prosecutor’s allegations do not present material facts, which detracts from the authenticity of the accusation against his constituent. Major Pedro Lussaty and the other defendants are accused of committing 13 crimes.
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