Kim Kataguiri: 'Because I stayed on the run long enough, I was successful in my escape, the State lost the right to punish me.'
Kim Kataguiri: What we are doing now is very simple.
You were convicted, you fled, you lose the right to prescription (the statute of limitations).
Kim Kataguiri: The crime will not prescribe while you are on the run, which is obvious; otherwise you are rewarding and encouraging the person to flee, because if he is successful in his escape and not caught within a certain period of time, which will depend on the crime he committed, he can return as if nothing had happened.
Kim Kataguiri: So I'm pleased with this approval. I want to thank Deputy Fraga, who was the Rapporteur of this bill and who also led, politically alongside me, this approval in Plenary.