Actions were authorized by STF Minister Cristiano Zanin; The PF revealed that ‘the targets of operations would have had early access to details of police operations’
(PF) on Friday (30) the 9th phase of Operation Sisamnes, which investigates the commercialization of court decisions in state judiciary and the Superior Court of Justice (), and the leakage of confidential information. At this stage, searches were performed at addresses related to the mayor of Palmas, Eduardo Siqueira Campos, who had his passport confiscated and is prevented from leaving Brazil.
The actions were authorized by Minister Cristiano Zanin of the Federal Supreme Court (). The PF revealed that “the targets of operations would have had early access to details of police operations, compromising the effectiveness of judicial measures that would be implemented.”
Although the PF requested the arrest of Campos for obstruction of justice, the request was not accepted by Zanin. However, the minister allowed the investigation to continue an alleged privileged treatment to lawyer Thiago Marcos Barbosa, who had already been arrested in an earlier phase of the operation. Barbosa is the nephew of Governor Wanderlei Barbosa, who denied any involvement in the case.
According to telephone interceptions, Campos would have alerted Barbosa about confidential information from the STJ, which raised suspicions about the relationship between them.
Operation Sisamnes began from the investigation of a murder of a lawyer in Mato Grosso, where evidence was discovered about selling sentences in courts.
Posted by Nátaly Tenório
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