Deolane Bezerra is in a special cell in a prison in Tupi Paulista; understand

Influencer Deolane Bezerra, arrested for alleged involvement in a million-dollar money laundering scheme by the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital), is in a special cell at the Tupi Paulista Women's Penitentiary, in the interior of São Paulo.

The court decision that authorized Deolane's preventive detention had already ordered her to be detained in the General Staff room, a prerogative provided for in the Law Statute for professionals regularly registered with the OAB (Brazilian Bar Association).

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In compliance with the court decision, the SAP (Secretary of Penitentiary Administration) informed that Deolane was allocated to the unit's Special Pavilion. She was admitted to the prison in the early afternoon of this Friday (22).

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The decision is in line with the prerogative provided for in the Law Statute which, in practice, guarantees that lawyers detained on a precautionary basis are not held in common cells before final sentencing.

Therefore, the measure does not prevent the person from being arrested and does not change the course of the investigation, it only ensures that custody is differentiated due to the professional prerogatives of the lawyer.

"The Penitentiary Administration Secretariat informs that the person in custody was admitted this Friday (22nd), around 12pm, at the Tupi Paulista Women's Penitentiary. She was allocated to a Special Pavilion, in accordance with the court order, which recognized the existence of the re-educated woman's active registration as a lawyer", SAP said in a note.

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670 km from the capital and overcrowded: discover the Tupi Paulista Women's Penitentiary, where Deolane is located

What the law statute provides
Deolane is entitled to the General Staff Room in accordance with article 7, item V, of Law No. 8,906/1994, which defines that lawyers have the right not to be detained in a common prison before the conviction becomes final.

The provisions of the Statute function as institutional protection, as the constitutional nature of the profession, recognized by article 133 of the Federal Constitution, according to which the lawyer is indispensable to the administration of Justice.

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Does the right continue after a final conviction?
The prerogative provided for in the Law Statute is limited in scope to the period prior to the final judgment of the conviction.

This means that the right to confinement in the General Staff room is linked to the condition of a precautionary prisoner, as in cases of preventive or temporary detention, or to the absence of a definitive conviction.

If there is a criminal conviction that has become final, that is, when there is no longer any possibility of appeal, the specific protection of article 7, item V, of Law No. 8,906/1994 no longer applies.

In this case, the sentence will be served following the general rules of criminal execution applicable to other convicts, without automatic maintenance of the professional prerogative of differentiated custody.

In other words, the Statute protects the lawyer against imprisonment in a common prison before final conviction, it does not create a permanent special prison regime.

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Understand the case
Deolane Bezerra is in pre-trial detention on suspicion of being part of a PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) money laundering scheme. She was arrested during Operation Vérnix, launched this Thursday (21) by the Civil Police of São Paulo and Gaeco (Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime) of Presidente Prudente.

Investigations indicate that the lawyer had close ties with one of the ghost managers of a multimillion-dollar financial cog in the money laundering scheme.

This mechanism was used to hide, dissimulate and reinsert into the formal economy values linked to the top leadership of the PCC.

According to the authorities, the structure linked to the influencer was used to make the faction's illicit resources appear legal. In total, 35 shell companies were opened by her at the same address for money laundering.

Other side
In a statement, Deolane's defense spoke out on Thursday night (21), claiming the influencer's "absolute innocence". Read in full:

"The technical defense of lawyer Deolane Bezerra Santos comes, with the utmost respect to the institutions of the Justice System and the Democratic Rule of Law, to provide the necessary clarifications on the events that resulted in her preventive arrest on today, 21.05.26: initially we emphasize her most absolute innocence, as well as that the facts will be duly clarified by her, at an opportune moment. For now and as due compliance, we consider them disproportionate the measures signed against Deolane and this defense panel will continue to cooperate technically with the Court to demonstrate the lawfulness of its activities as a lawyer that it is, fully trusting in the discernment, reasonableness and impartiality of the Judiciary".

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Source: CNN