Dino sends an inquiry involving Rui Costa to STJ – 07/08/2025 – Power

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The minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), sent to the (Superior Court of Justice) the inquiry that investigates and involves the minister of ,.

Dino stated, in a decision on Wednesday (6), that the case is the responsibility of the STJ, a cut responsible for judging governors, because the alleged acts performed by the investigated would have occurred when he was head of the executive of Bahia, and not minister of state.

The 300 pulmonary fans, which cost R $ 48.7 million to the public coffers, were bought during the management of Rui Costa in the state and delivered to the Northeast Consortium, of which he was also president.

“In this conflict, I understand that the principle of the specialty of the rule of ex-authorities over the general rule of current prerogative, not only by compliance with the recently consolidated jurisprudence by this Court, but also because of the logic that guides the criminal proceedings, of which they are facts, not people who undergo a certain trial,” Dino said in a confidential decision obtained by Sheet.

The measure had been requested by the Attorney General of the Republic ,. He also claimed that the investigated facts occurred when Rui was the position of governor and that the prerogative of forum is linked to the exercise occupied at the time of the facts, in this case the STJ.

“Although the investigated RC currently holds the position of Minister of State, the new understanding signed by the plenary of the Supreme Court indicates that the competence to prosecute and judge the crimes imputed to him, because they have been allegedly committed in the exercise of the governor’s term and because of him, remains in the STJ,” said Gonet.

The Civil House advisory said that in defending the continuity of the process of the process in the Supreme Court, the PGR was “in accordance with the thesis presented by the defense of Rui Costa, aligned with the decisions and jurisprudence of the STF, consolidated prior to this concrete case”.

“It should be reiterated that Rui Costa’s desire is for the greatest possible as possible in the progress of the process, which is why his defense has collaborated broadly and unrestrictedly with the investigative bodies and the judiciary,” the agency said.

According to Federal Police investigations on the case, the equipment would have been paid in advance and never delivered.

According to the investigators, the investigation was able to identify a criminal scheme that involved lobbyists, entrepreneurs, public agents and companies that worked in Bahia and São Paulo.

The first phase of the operation was triggered in April 2022. In a statement released at the time, (Comptroller General of the Union) stated that there were no justifications for hiring the company that received the amounts.

According to the agency, the hiring with exemption from bidding was carried out by the Bahia Health Department. The company, according to the controllership, was dedicated to the commercialization of cannabis (marijuana) medicines and had “no proof of experience or even operational and financial capacity to comply with the contract”.

Also according to the auditors, the payment of about R $ 49 million was made without due guarantees and without observing the guidelines of the Attorney General’s Office. By June 2020, the Bahia Civil Police had already carried out Operation Ragnarok to investigate the facts.

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