The Minister of Communications, (), decided to resign from office on Tuesday (8) after being reported from (Attorney General’s Office) for alleged crimes related to the diversion of.
The elected by Maranhão was licensed to the legislature to occupy the Esplanade of Ministries.
According to, Juscelino joined a criminal organization that subtracted resources from paving works funded with funds from the federal state -irrigated with rapporteur amendments during the mandate of ().
The case is under the rapporteur of the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court and runs under confidentiality. It will now be up to the court to decide whether the minister becomes a defendant. It is PGR’s first complaint against a government member ().
For the PF, there is a suspicion of crimes such as participation in criminal organization, money laundering, passive, ideological falsehood and bid fraud. In a statement, the licensed deputy said he was innocent and said that the offer of the complaint does not imply guilt and does not “may serve as an instrument for the MP [] guide the country “.
Understand what weighs against Juscelino Filho and what are the next steps of PGR’s complaint:
Case history
Suspicion of the communications holder involves irregularities in works executed in Vitorino Freire (300 km from São Luís), governed by Luanna Rezende, sister of Juscelino, and funded by parliamentary amendments of the minister when he exercised the deputy mandate.
According to a report by CGU (Comptroller General of the Union), 80% of the road funded by the minister’s amendments benefited from him and the family. The intervention cost R $ 7.5 million and was made possible by Construsservice, which had Eduardo José Barros Costa, Eduardo DP, as a hidden partner.
He was investigated after PF found messages between him and Eduardo DP on the businessman’s cell phone seized in an operation. As, the messages show dialogues of the businessman and Juscelino about the execution of works and the destination of the amendments.
This investigation began after Sheet Reveal, in 2022, that the construment and had as a hidden partner Eduardo DP.
The newspaper A destination of R $ 5 million from the rapporteur amendments to asphalt dirt road in front of the Communications’ farmer, with an opinion signed by Codevasf engineer appointed by Juscelino’s political group, as well as contracts with companies from friends in Vitorino Freire.
Supposedly committed crimes
Throughout the investigation, PF has mapped three paths used to divert Codevasf contracts from Lula Minister today.
The paths cited in the investigation involve, and a.
He was indicted by the corporation on June 12 last year on suspicion of participating in criminal organization, money laundering, passive corruption, ideological falsehood and bid fraud.
Procedural rite and next steps
With the complaint in hand, Minister Flávio Dino, rapporteur of the case, must prepare a vote, recommending the admission or not of the accusations. As the case is criminal, he must go to the first class of the Supreme, composed of, besides Dino, Alexandre de Moraes, Carmen Lúcia, Cristiano Zanin and Luiz Fux.
If most are in favor of accepting the complaint, Juscelino becomes a defendant and the criminal proceedings itself begins – before, only the investigation phase occurred.
The first stage is the instruction, when more evidence and new testimonials are collected, nominated by both prosecution and defense, they are performed. Then the first class of the Court will decide on conviction or acquittal. In the end, the parties may submit resources to the decision.
Political implications
The head of communications decided to resign from office after the reporting of the complaint. The decision, made by him in conversation with members of his party, was announced to allies on Tuesday afternoon.
Lula himself had already stated last year, when Juscelino was indicted by the PF ,.
Ministers spoke of an expectation that Juscelino took the initiative to leave office. The president’s interlocutors also said that Juscelino’s movement leave office free the petista of embarrassment.
What does Juscelino say
In a statement, the lawyers of the minister, Ticiano Figueiredo and Pedro Ivo Velloso, say that he has not been notified so far about the complaint, but reaffirms his innocence and understands that the formalization of the accusation “does not imply guilt or can serve as an instrument for the MP to guide the country.”
The note also says that the minister trusts the Supreme Court and that the court will reject the accusatory piece, claiming that there is lack of evidence.
The note also states that the case is not related to Juscelino’s performance at the head of the Ministry of Communications and that, as a deputy, he “merely indicated parliamentary amendments to fund the work for the benefit of the population.”
