Souza earlier this month ordered Batista’s assets in Brazil seized, as well as those of his two of his sons, an ex-wife and the mother of his third son. The order led to the raid of Batista’s Rio mansion in which police took seven vehicles including a Lamborghini Aventador, a police spokesman said at the time. Authorities also seized a yacht, three jet skis and a speedboat, among other assets.
Following the trial’s first hearing in November, which resembled a movie set with several film crews following every movement of the 58-year-old fallen mogul, Souza called Batista a “symbolic figure.”
“He was the poster boy of his own companies and with a megalomaniac dream of becoming the world’s richest man,” he said about the ex-billionaire at the time. “To see a person with that type of attitude sitting at the defendant’s bench is really a historic moment.”