Find out who Aury Lopes Jr. is, the lawyer who works in the defense of Deolane Bezerra

Aury Lopes Jr.'s entry into the defense of influencer and lawyer Deolane Bezerra placed one of the best-known names in Brazilian criminal proceedings at the center of the case.

With activities divided between criminal law and academic production, Aury built a career marked by the defense of a constitutional and guarantor reading of the criminal process, a line that appears both in his professional work and in his books and academic works.

Graduated in Law from the Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande in 1991, the lawyer followed an academic path focused on criminal law and criminal proceedings.

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He completed his specialization in Law in 1993 and, years later, completed a doctorate in Criminal Procedural Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with a thesis on preliminary investigation systems in criminal proceedings. The work received maximum marks and a unanimous vote of praise (cum laude).

After returning to Brazil, he began to combine academic activities and law.

Since 2000, he became a full professor in the postgraduate program in Criminal Sciences at PUC-RS (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul), where he worked on specialization, master's and doctorate courses. He was also a guest professor in postgraduate programs in Brazil and abroad.

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Reference in criminal proceedings
Over the last few decades, Aury Lopes Jr. has established himself as one of the most cited authors in discussions about criminal proceedings in the country.

Among his best-known works is the book Criminal Procedural Law, frequently used in undergraduate and postgraduate courses and preparation for legal exams. The author has also published titles focused on topics such as preliminary investigation, criminal execution, precautionary detention, reasonable duration of the process and constitutional foundations of the criminal process.

One of the areas in which academic production focused was precisely the study of precautionary arrests, a topic that gained relevance in the Deolane case given the discussion about preventive detention and requests for freedom presented by the defense. Among the books published by the criminalist is "Prisões Cautelares", a work dedicated to the legal regime of procedural arrests and precautionary measures in the Brazilian penal system.

In addition to his academic activity, he participated in technical groups and entities in the criminal area.

He was appointed by the then president of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) and the CNJ (National Council of Justice), Cezar Peluso, to join a working group that analyzed proposals to reform the Code of Criminal Procedure at the National Council of Justice. He was also a member of the Rio Grande do Sul Penitentiary Council and participates in entities such as the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences and the Brazilian Association of Criminal Lawyers.

How the office operates
According to an institutional presentation, Aury Lopes Jr.'s office operates both in contentious criminal defense and preventive strategies, following cases from the investigation phase.

The material also describes joint work with professionals in areas such as accounting, economics, financial markets and forensics, as well as a network of corresponding offices in different states.

Understand the case
Deolane was preventively arrested in Operation Vérnix, an investigation conducted by the Civil Police and Gaeco, from the Public Ministry of São Paulo.

According to investigators, the case investigates an alleged money laundering structure attributed to the PCC, using companies and asset movements to insert resources into the formal economy.

The investigations are still ongoing and the allegations must be analyzed by the Court, with the right to full defense.

What Aury Lopes Jr. says
When contacted, Deolane's defense stated that the influencer "knows a lot of people and circulates in many media", but that this cannot be interpreted as an element of criminal liability.

The lawyers maintain that all amounts attributed to her are declared and have a lawful origin, including amounts received at the beginning of the investigation which, according to the defense, correspond to legal fees.

The defense also stated that it did not have the opportunity to present clarifications during the four years of investigation and said that it intends to demonstrate, in the process, the origin of the resources mentioned by the investigation.

See the full statement:
"Deolane is a public figure who really knows a lot of people, circulates in many circles and this cannot be criminalized in any way. Her activities are all legal activities, all the values are declared. We still haven't had space or time in this investigation to explain the values attributed to her because she was never called to the police to provide any clarification. We will have to do this, then, within the process.

Regarding the amounts received at the beginning of the investigation, which are mentioned at the beginning of the investigation, they relate to perfectly legal legal fees and which she will explain during the course of the process.

The problem is that the investigation, after this payment, back in 2020, investigates her personal and professional life and that of her family and mixes values originating from her activity as a businesswoman, as an influencer, mixes everything and attributes a legal origin. Why? Because they don't know what the accounting origin of it all is. And we have, we can explain absolutely all the values, but we were not given any opportunity in the course of this investigation, which has been open for four years and only now is a totally unnecessary, untimely, absolutely illegal arrest coming.

So, everything will be explained at your point in the process."

Source: CNN