Members, former member or assistants of at least 14 courts in the country are targets of related investigations and criminal actions. The number may be even higher because there are findings that run under confidentiality.
The suspicions fall on both magistrates who are still active and others who were removed from public life while cases are not completed or retired – for their own option or by punishment applied by the (National Council of Justice).
The cases also involve employees who have worked on magistrate offices. Some investigations include suspicions of participation of relatives and others near the judges.
In addition to the 14 cases in progress, there are other actions that have already been filed, as occurred at the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice, or have the execution of a penalty in progress, as with a member of the Court of Ceará.
(Superior Court of Justice) and the CNJ have prioritized, in recent years, the trial of such episodes under the justification that they act to face corruption in the judiciary.
Still, there are cases that have been dragging on in court for over a decade, without conclusion.
One of them is the criminal action, which investigated the Court of Justice of Espírito Santo in 2008. At the time, three judges were arrested on suspicion of nepotism and decisions.
The trial of the case, which currently has a judge as a defendant, was scheduled to happen at the STJ this month, but was taken from the agenda.
In the process, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office filed complaints against 26 people in 2010. In 2021, when the action was opened at the STJ, five of them had already died, and the crime of others had prescribed because the accused had already turned 70 years old.
The justification of the STJ for the withdrawal of the agenda of the case is an agenda conflict from part of the ministers, who could not be in all sessions.
Due to the complexity of the action, the forecast is that there are two sessions only with so -called oral support, when the lawyers present their arguments to the magistrates.
Other operations of great repercussion are more recent and are still in the investigation phase, such as those related to ES scandals.
The inquiries are under the responsibility of the minister in the Supreme Court and also involve suspicions about STJ offices.
The cases investigated in different courts of the country have similarities, especially in the “modus operandi” of what would be decision sales schemes. Sometimes there is even a relationship between investigated in different cases.
The cases investigated in the STJ, the TJ-MS and the TJ-MT are connected with the same person: suspected of being responsible for brokering the unlawful negotiation.
He is in Mato Grosso.
Another prominent case of recent years is, which has already led six judges of the Bahia Court of Justice to become defendants.
The investigation led to. In the agreement, validated in 2021, she cited 68 names of magistrates, lawyers, public servants and entrepreneurs.
The collaboration, however, ended up breach of the agreement. The tests were maintained by Minister Og Fernandes.
Both the schemes of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul and Bahia, with common characters, related to land disputes.
Another similarity is the suspicion of – which, most of the time, are lawyers – in negotiating these decision sales.
Figures are also trying to gain the influence of judges and gain advantages on the negotiations, such as Andreson, in Mato Grosso. In Bahia, the Honorary Consul of Guinea-Bissau was passed and a representative of an obscure Italian principality that does not actually exist.
Andreson and Adailton Maturino’s defenses deny that they have committed any irregularity.
In part of the ongoing cases, there are suspicions of offering advantages to drug traffickers.
A, launched in 2023, aimed a judge who was part of the TRF-1 (Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region) and retired after the operation.
He was investigated for decisions that benefited a criminal organization with acting, according to PF, in international drug trafficking, money laundering and financial crimes. The inquiry is still in the STJ.
A retired judge of the Amazon Court also responds to the case on suspicion of benefiting traffickers, as well as other criminal organizations. The action against her was opened in 2022 and awaits a decision. There are similar suspicions about an Amapá judge.
Rio de Janeiro
Last month, the STJ condemned three Rio de Janeiro Regional Labor Court (TRT) judges on charges of participating in a criminal group that received bribes to give favorable decisions and include companies and social organizations in a special plan for the execution of the Labor Court.
One of the magistrates received a 20 -year sentence for the crimes of criminal association, embezzlement, passive and active corruption and money laundering. Another was sentenced to 20 years and a third, to ten. The process is underway, with resources from the magistrates.
Defenses maintain that they are innocent and have suffered political persecution.
