The prosecutor had an elaborate scheme to forge signatures and manipulate the dates of orders. Among the cases affected, there are cases of attempted murder and sexual abuse and mistreatment of children.
A prosecutor was sentenced after the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) found serious irregularities in the management of judicial processes between 2014 and 2018. The ruling, consulted by , describes a scheme in which the judge electronically signed 87 processes in just 39 minutes, on April 8, 2014, without carrying out any due diligence. The intention would be to have the processes registered as dispatched, manipulating the numbers.
On the same day, the prosecutor ordered the opening of conclusions in another 80 investigations, some of which had been pending for years. In many cases, manipulated dispatch datessimulating actions carried out at later times. These actions aimed to deceive judicial inspectors, which earned him a “Good with Distinction” rating in 2015.
The crimes were only discovered in 2018, after a complaint from BPI to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), questioning the prosecutor’s lack of response to a request for procedural acceleration. A new inspection, covering the previous four years, revealed that the magistrate had taken home 179 processes without authorizationof which none were dispatched.
Among the processes affected were serious cases such as defamation, threats, theft, child abuse, child sexual abuse and even attempted murder. 336 cases pending in the prosecutor’s office were also identified, without any progress.
According to the STJ, the judge allowed criminal proceedings to be prescribed in at least 89 inquiriesdue to his “inertia, lack of zeal and diligence”. The court concluded that the prosecutor was fully aware of her omission and its consequences.
The prosecutor was sentenced at the end of October to a prison sentence of two years and two months, suspended for three years. These are crimes of document forgery committed by an official, denial of justice and malfeasance.
