The minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), determined the return of the case of an inquiry that investigated the president of the current secretary of government of São Paulo.
The decision is part of an initiative of the Moraes Office taken after the supreme expands the special forum to even after they leave the positions.
In addition to Kassab, other cases that had been sent to lower instances who were under the rapporteur of Moraes must return to the STF. He has also determined, for example, the return of an inquiry into the former minister (MDB).
The investigation into Kassab is originally from the denunciation of Wesley Batista and Ricardo Saud, JBS. At the time of opening this investigation in 2018, Kassab was Minister of Science and Technology of the Michel Temer (MDB) government.
After the inauguration of and the departure of Kassab from the federal government in 2019, the process was sent by Moraes to the Electoral Court of São Paulo.
The former minister arrived on charges of corruption, money laundering and box two, but was acquitted.
In theory, cases judged definitely may be uncovered in some situations, and will depend on the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) decide whether to ask to reopen the investigation.
The investigation involved two suspicions about the PSD president: that he would have received bribes in the amount of R $ 350 thousand per month through the company Yape Consultoria Debates Ltda; That JBS would have paid him $ 28,000 in exchange for PSD’s political support to the PT in the 2014 elections.
Kassab has always denied all charges and said that the investigated firm received lawful resources and provided services to the JBS owner group and that business activity had unrelated to any public functions or political-party activities.
Moraes’s decision that the case file returns to the Supreme was taken on the 19th.
Kassab began last month a movement of approach with former President Jair Bolsonaro (), with the intermediary of the governor of São Paulo, Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans), in search of the party support to the bill that provides amnesty to prisoners in the scoup acts of 8 January.
In an act in Rio de Janeiro on the 16th, the former president claimed to have Kassab’s support for amnesty.
Bolsonaro used Moraes’s decision about the PSD president to criticize the Supreme Minister on social networks.
According to him, there is constant news of the “use of justice by Moraes as a political weapon, of intimidation, as an instrument of ‘pressure’ capable of having an effect to intimidate the president of a party. This is not normal, except in dictatorships.”
