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Renato Duque, ex-diretor de Serviços da Petrobras, na CPI da Petrobras (março de 2015); foto de depoimento, com outras pessoas ao fundo
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Renato Duque

Renato de Souza Duque

Former Services Director of Petrobras. According to a report, convicted on September 21, 2015 at first instance (criminal) to 20 years and 8 months. Current status of the cases not verified in this version of the archive.

Being in this archive does not mean having committed any wrongdoing. Procedural status: see each case and episode, with date.

Positions and roles

Cases

  • Lava Jato criminal cases against Renato Duque — defendant · status as of Oct. 24, 2026: Last recorded conviction: April 22, 2025. Custody and appeals after that date: not found on October 24, 2026. The entry records no annulment.

Documented links

  • Renato Duque headed Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. — Petrobras: Services Director (Chief Services Officer) of Petrobras according to the 2014 20-F.
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    Petrobras recorded that Paulo Roberto Costa (former Supply director) was arrested in March 2014 and later indicted for money laundering and passive corruption, and that Renato Duque (former Services director), Nestor Cerveró (former International director), and Pedro Barusco (former executive manager of Services) had been or were expected to be indicted.

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  • Pedro Barusco was subordinate to Renato Duque: Barusco was linked, in Petrobras's structure, to the Services director, Renato Duque (hierarchical relationship; no dates in the source).
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    Pedro Barusco was executive manager of Engineering at Petrobras, linked to director Renato Duque; in May 2015 Janot handed Petrobras R$157 million diverted by him (R$182 million recovered in total according to the entry); in September 2015 he was sentenced to 18 years and 4 months in a differentiated open regime, with an ankle monitor.

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  • Gabriela Hardt convicted Renato Duque: Hardt's first sentence in Lava Jato, on November 19, 2018, against Renato Duque (3 years and 4 months according to Hardt's entry; 6 years and 8 months according to Duque's).
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    Gabriela Hardt has been a federal judge since January 26, 2009, was a substitute judge of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba from 2014 to November 2018 and presided over the court from November 19, 2018 to April 30, 2019 (designated by the TRF4); on November 19, 2018 she issued her first Lava Jato sentence (Renato Duque) and on February 6, 2019 convicted Lula to 12 years and 11 months in the Atibaia ranch case.

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    The entry lists Duque's convictions: 20 years, 3 months and 10 days (March 8, 2016); 10 years and 8 months (August 2017, Andrade Gutierrez contracts), raised by the TRF4 (8th Panel) to 28 years, 5 months and 10 days on September 12 or 13, 2018; 6 years and 8 months by judge Gabriela Hardt (November 19, 2018); and 29 years and 2 months by the Federal Court in Curitiba on April 22, 2025 (fraud of R$525 million in contracts, Multitek Engenharia).

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  • TRF4 judged Renato Duque: The Eighth Panel of the TRF4 upheld and increased to 28 years, 5 months and 10 days the sentence in the Andrade Gutierrez case (September 12 or 13, 2018).
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    The entry lists Duque's convictions: 20 years, 3 months and 10 days (March 8, 2016); 10 years and 8 months (August 2017, Andrade Gutierrez contracts), raised by the TRF4 (8th Panel) to 28 years, 5 months and 10 days on September 12 or 13, 2018; 6 years and 8 months by judge Gabriela Hardt (November 19, 2018); and 29 years and 2 months by the Federal Court in Curitiba on April 22, 2025 (fraud of R$525 million in contracts, Multitek Engenharia).

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  • Teori Zavascki relationship with Renato Duque: Revoked Renato Duque's detention on December 2, 2014 (according to Duque's entry).
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    Duque was arrested in November 2014 (Teori Zavascki revoked the arrest on December 2, 2014), again in March 2015 (10th phase) and, after a July 18, 2024 order from the Federal Court in Curitiba, was arrested by the PF on August 17, 2024 in Volta Redonda (RJ), after being considered a fugitive since July 2024.

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Evidence mentioning Renato Duque

Petrobras recorded that Paulo Roberto Costa (former Supply director) was arrested in March 2014 and later indicted for money laundering and passive corruption, and that Renato Duque (former Services director), Nestor Cerveró (former International director), and Pedro Barusco (former executive manager of Services) had been or were expected to be indicted.

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According to Congresso em Foco, in a sentence of September 21, 2015 Judge Sergio Moro convicted Renato Duque to 20 years and 8 months for passive corruption, money laundering, and criminal association, and Pedro Barusco to 18 years and 4 months (with a plea agreement); the sentence identified at least R$36,346,200, US$956,045, and €765,802 in bribes linked to the Services Directorate.

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Renato Duque was Services director at Petrobras; the entry gives 2003 to 2012 at the start and 2003 to 2015 in the body text, without reconciling the dates.

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Duque was arrested in November 2014 (Teori Zavascki revoked the arrest on December 2, 2014), again in March 2015 (10th phase) and, after a July 18, 2024 order from the Federal Court in Curitiba, was arrested by the PF on August 17, 2024 in Volta Redonda (RJ), after being considered a fugitive since July 2024.

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The entry lists Duque's convictions: 20 years, 3 months and 10 days (March 8, 2016); 10 years and 8 months (August 2017, Andrade Gutierrez contracts), raised by the TRF4 (8th Panel) to 28 years, 5 months and 10 days on September 12 or 13, 2018; 6 years and 8 months by judge Gabriela Hardt (November 19, 2018); and 29 years and 2 months by the Federal Court in Curitiba on April 22, 2025 (fraud of R$525 million in contracts, Multitek Engenharia).

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According to the entry, from 2016 Duque began to cooperate with the courts and agreed to return 20.5 million euros frozen in Monaco; the text says he would serve five years regardless of the sum of the sentences, but does not confirm a formal approved agreement.

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The entry records no annulment of Duque's convictions by the STF, STJ or TRF4; the only STF decision cited is the revocation of pretrial detention on December 2, 2014.

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Pedro Barusco was executive manager of Engineering at Petrobras, linked to director Renato Duque; in May 2015 Janot handed Petrobras R$157 million diverted by him (R$182 million recovered in total according to the entry); in September 2015 he was sentenced to 18 years and 4 months in a differentiated open regime, with an ankle monitor.

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Gabriela Hardt has been a federal judge since January 26, 2009, was a substitute judge of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba from 2014 to November 2018 and presided over the court from November 19, 2018 to April 30, 2019 (designated by the TRF4); on November 19, 2018 she issued her first Lava Jato sentence (Renato Duque) and on February 6, 2019 convicted Lula to 12 years and 11 months in the Atibaia ranch case.

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