The mayor, Eduardo Siqueira Campos (Somos), will resume his term three weeks after by order of (Supreme Federal Court).
Siqueira Campos made a live on the night of Thursday (17) celebrating the decision and broadcast live the reception with supporters in the state capital.
On June 27, PF launched a new phase of Operation Sisamnes, which investigates alleged scheme of leakage and sale of decisions in the (Superior Court of Justice) with the participation of public servants.
Siqueira Campos was arrested at the time, as was lawyer Antonio Ianowich Filho and civil police officer Marco Augusto Velasco Nascimento Albernaz. In addition, three searches and seizures were performed and the application of various precautionary measures.
The measures were authorized by Minister Cristiano Zanin of (Supreme Federal Court).
According to a statement issued by the PF, “the investigation revealed evidence that confidential information would be being accessed in advance, articulated and passed on to investigated, with the involvement of public agents, lawyers and external operators.”
The Federal Police also said that the group is suspected of using these sensitive data to protect allies, thwart police actions and build influence networks.
At the time, Siqueira Campos said the investigation is not about the current mandate and that everything will be clarified. “At this time, it is important to provide all clarifications and keep preserved the population of Palmas and the municipal management,” he said in a statement when he was arrested.
On July 8, the politician in the barracks where he was in prison and had to undergo an emergency catheterization.
The STF for the mayor after the episode.
In a publication on his Instagram this Thursday, Siqueira Campos said he returns to office with the “physical and spiritually renewed heart” and “clean hands”, “always believing in Brazilian justice and always respecting all authorities at all levels.”
He also said that “does not carry sorrows.” “With certainty and clean consciousness and with a new heart is that I am back,” he said.
In May, Operation Sisamnes, suspected of being a financial operator of the judicial decision sales scheme through.
Investigations indicate that he received bank transfers of $ 6.5 million from a Andreson company and then drew a part of the cash value.
According to the PF, the targets of this action are investigated because they performed serious acts of obstruction of justice to embarrass the execution of the judicial measures of the fifth phase of the operation, launched in the same week.
In May, the mayor denied having committed irregularities and said he did not maintain “privileged sources in courts or any other instance of the judiciary.”
In November 2024, the PF served, in the same operation, 23 search warrants and an arrest against lawyers, lobbyists, businessmen, advisers, chiefs of cabinet and magistrates suspected of involvement in the sale of court decisions.
At the time, search measures of the Court of Justice of Mato Grosso were the judges of the Court of Justice, the heads of STJ Ministers Isabel Gallotti and Og Fernandes (Daimler Alberto de Campos and Rodrigo Falcão de Oliveira Andrade, respectively) and the advisor Márcio José Toledo Pinto, who worked in the offices of several ministers.
