Nikolas Ferreira: Time passes and in 2022 the Batista brothers hire Zanin, who had been Lula's lawyer, to get them out of that billion-dollar JBS fine.
Nikolas Ferreira: A year later... Zanin, who was Lula's former lawyer and who was also Joesley Batista's lawyer, ends up becoming a minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal), appointed by Lula.
Then Minister Zanin, rightly, takes the position of declaring himself disqualified from handling any case involving Joesley Batista and JBS.
Nikolas Ferreira: After all, he had been their lawyer in the past.
Nikolas Ferreira: But wait, in Brazil there is always a way.