The minister transferred the inquiry of Operation Maximus, which investigates, to the (Federal Supreme Court), where the case will be under his rapporteur.
Rather, this inquiry was reported by Minister João Otávio de Noronha, in the (Superior Court of Justice).
In the Supreme, Zanin already supervised an investigation into suspicion of STJ offices for targets in Tocantins, but not the determinations of decision sales.
Zanin’s justification for the transfer is that findings on Maximus, as well as other investigations of corruption and leakage in the judiciary, have the potential to involve special forum authorities in the Supreme – the example of STJ ministers.
In addition to Tocantins, they are also under the responsibility of Zanin investigations regarding suspicions related to STJ ministers and also to magistrates of the courts of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
So far, however, no STJ minister is investigated in these cases.
Operation Maximus was triggered in August last year to investigate suspicions of active corruption, prestigious exploitation, money laundering and criminal organization in the Tocantins judiciary.
Zanin’s decision to transfer the case to the Supreme Court happens after obtaining a recording in which he said he received from Minister João Otávio de Noronha.
The statement appears in the transcription of a call between the mayor and a lawyer. In the dialogue, he mentions a meeting with STJ Minister João Otávio de Noronha, “15 or 18 years ago” in Brasilia. Siqueira Campos says on the call that he received from the magistrate an alert.
“He said to me, ‘Siqueira, just to warn your father that four judges will be removed,” he says, in the transcription by the Federal Police. The current mayor’s father is former Tocantins governor José Wilson Siqueira Campos, killed in 2023.
“There were four away. This Noronha called me in Brasilia and called me in a reserved and said ‘Siqueira, I love your father, I’m sure, I read the file, there is nothing about him, but we will have to ward off these four.’
On the call, the mayor cites Judges, who found suspicions of a court decision -up scheme in the state and was triggered in December 2010. The Maet was reported by Noronha.
Sought at the time of the conversation, Siqueira Campos said in a statement that “did not have access to the case file, which is confidentially determined by the Federal Supreme Court” and that “given this fact is prevented from making any comment on the subject.”
Minister João Otávio de Noronha, also wanted, said that “he did not attend the alleged meeting in which he had warned about Operation Maet and has no personal or professional relationships with the mayor.”
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