# Sergio Moro convicts Lula in the triplex Lava Jato case Date: 2017 ## The fact On 12 July 2017 federal judge [Sergio Moro](/people/sergio-moro) convicted [Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva](/people/env-person-lula) of corruption and money-laundering in the Guarujá triplex case. It was later annulled. It is not a standing 2026 verdict. ## Context Lava Jato sat. Neighbouring prison 2018 is the child. Neighbouring STF 2021 is the later annulment. He denied the charges. 7 April 2018 prison is neighbouring. 8 March 2021 STF annulment is later. Mensalão is a different case. The President of Brazil heads the federal executive, sanctions statutes, and commands the armed forces as a political principal. He does not write STF judgments, INPE satellite pixels, a US tariff proclamation, or a Venezuelan CNE tally. Congress, governors, Petrobras, and coalition partners share specific files. ## Evidence and sources Supreme Federal Court of Brazil carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) and justice: a completed first-instance conviction is a dated accountability instrument. A later jurisdiction annulment is a neighbouring later row, not this copy. ## What is established and what is not Established: 12 July 2017 Moro conviction, independently reported, later annulled for jurisdiction. Not established: a standing 2026 merits conviction, or that every Petrobras kickback was this apartment. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Prosecutors charged. He denied. The STF later voided the Curitiba docket.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Sergio Moro convicts Lula in the triplex Lava Jato case, not a later speech about Sergio Moro convicts Lula in the triplex Lava Jato case. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Sergio Moro convicts Lula in the triplex Lava Jato case on 2017-07-12 is not a licence to treat every later Supreme Federal Court of Brazil communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Sergio Moro convicts Lula in the triplex Lava Jato case into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Moro convicted. Prosecutors charged. He denied. The STF later voided the Curitiba docket. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: https://factrail.ai/people/lula ## Drivers - Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption - Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion ## Sources - https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-40488914 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-lula-idUSKBN19X2Q4 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/br-lula-conviction-2017