In addition to being responsible since 2019 for the inquiry and their various developments, other ministers of (Supreme Federal Court) have supervised broad investigations in recent years, involving distinct suspicions and not always with clear connections.
It was the investigations from inquiries such as the fake news–and those who gave Moraes the necessary connection to become a rapporteur of the main cases related to the former president () and his allies.
One such investigation is that of the coup attempt after the 2022 elections, which put Bolsonaro.
The procedures under the supervision of Moraes have dominated the Supreme Criminal Agenda since 2019 and coincide with the sunset.
At Lava Jato, decisions of the minister were defeated in the second class of the Court, which has a majority of members opposed to the operation, or were dehydrated after the annulment of Odebrecht reports by ministers Ricardo Lewandowski (who became Lula’s Justice Minister) and.
In addition to investigations under the supervision of Moraes, other cases began to accumulate in the hands of ministers, related to different suspicions.
One is Operation Sisamnes, launched in November last year by authorization from the minister. It had as its initial connection the determination of relations with decisions and leaks in the (Superior Court of Justice).
At the time, Zanin decided to bring his supervision in the Supreme other investigations involving Andreson -related suspicions. For example, those of corruption EE of Mato Grosso do Sul.
In the wake of this, the investigations related to the death of lawyer Zampieri, who died in 2023, whose mobile phone content began investigations into the schemes were also rising to the Supreme.
Recently, the inquiry into this death found evidence that the executors participated that it claimed to offer monitoring service of authorities such as deputies, senators and members of the judiciary.
In addition to these cases, the scrutiny of Zanin found the findings about what they were under the responsibility of STJ ministers.
So far, no STJ minister is investigated in these inquiries. Court members have a special forum in the Supreme.
One of the cases with developments that can hit hundreds of names is the, which was triggered last year on suspicions of deviations of R $ 1.4 billion in contracts of DNOCS (National Department of Drought Works), a federal authority linked to the Ministry of Regional Development.
The operation found fraud in waste bids, irregular direction of amendments and corruption in city halls.
The inquiry, which has among its main targets, went to the Supreme for quoting federal deputy Elmar Nascimento, who represents the party for Bahia. The last phase of the operation took place in April.
When investigations into Overclean climbed to the Supreme Court, the Federal Police asked them to be under the responsibility of, not.
The PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) opined that they should continue, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court President ,.
Among other reasons, the PF wanted the case to stay with Dino because the minister has several investigations related to parliamentary amendments in his hands, as well as an ADPF (action aimed at protecting the constitution) that also deals with the subject.
In the ADPF, Dino has determined determinations regarding any irregularities in the transfer and execution of amendments.
He defined that states and municipalities account for the federal government about the so -called PIX amendments received between 2020 and 2023, with the possibility of investigations of responsibilities in case of omission of public agents.
From a decision of the minister in this action, the Federal Police installed in December an inquiry to investigate the payment of the House of Representatives.
In addition, Dino is responsible for the investigation he investigated and led to the complaint on charges of corruption, who is a deputy for União Brasil do Maranhão.
It also has Dino A, about bribery payments in the release of funds to a hospital in Rio Grande do Sul.
The lawyer and professor of criminal law at FGV-SP Marcelo Cavali, says that the Supreme is often less contained than first instance judges to recognize connections in very broad cases, as there is less possibility that the process will be considered void later-because there is no court above the STF.
According to him, this may be one of the reasons for some cases to be more concentrated in the hands of certain ministers.
He points out, however, that the cases of Moraes are still the point outside the curve. “In no process, neither anterior, nor after the fake news and digital militias surveys, the Supreme had such a wide interpretation of connections,” says Cavali.
“[A partir dele] The Supreme Court came to adopt a vision that I would call a large connection, because they were sent to Minister Alexandre processes related to facts that had not even occurred at the time of the installation of the inquiry. “
The investigations supervised by the ministers
Alexandre de Moraes (Fake news inquiry)
Opened in 2019, it served as the basis for the minister to be responsible, since then, for unemployed acts and former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and his supporters
Cristiano Zanin (Operation Sisamnes)
Started from the investigation of the murder of a lawyer from Mato Grosso, he began to investigate sales of decisions and leaks of confidential information in state courts and also in the STJ (Superior Court of Justice)
Kassio Nunes Marques (Operation Overclean)
Suspicion of R $ 1.4 billion diversions in DNOCS contracts opened spaces for the investigation of businessmen and politicians from various Brazilian states, especially with links with União Brasil
Flávio Dino (Parliamentary amendments)
Minister is responsible for inquiries dealing with suspicions of deviations from parliamentary amendments and also a broad action on the subject, determining investigations by the Federal Police and the CGU (Comptroller General of the Union) on the subject
