The minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), annulled on Tuesday (15) all acts of the members of the former judge against João Vaccari Neto, former treasurer of.
The decision was given on the same day that the minister the renegotiation between the Union and contractors who signed leniency agreements under the operation and also the same day as Kassio Nunes Marques voted to maintain the decision that annulled the acts of Operation Lava Jato against former Minister Antonio Palocci.
In the case of Vaccari, as in other decisions in which he invalidated acts against Lava Jato targets, Toffoli said there was a collusion between judge and the accusation.
He nominally cited 2015, which dealt with suspicions of bribery payments of at least R $ 59 million by contractors who had contracts with Petrobras. The former minister (PT) was arrested in this operation.
According to Vaccari’s defense, (which investigated those responsible for hacking and leaking prosecutors) point out that there was a prior hit between prosecutors and Moro over the rights of the former treasurer.
Toffoli, in his decision, stated that the dialogues tarnish “the conduct of the magistrate and the prosecution, which violated constitutional guarantees of morality, impersonality, impartiality and legality.”
Since 2023, the minister has been making decisions that cancel acts of the operation. With this benefited two former presidents of contractors who signed a denunciation-Leo Pinheiro, from the former OAS (current Metha), and Marcelo Odebrecht-, as well as the Lava Jato pivot.
The collaboration agreements were not overthrown. That is, the fines they have pledged to pay remain valid.
In the Supreme Court, Toffoli has been a rapporteur, since the retirement of Ricardo Lewandowski, two years ago, of a process on the validity of decisions that use evidence from the systems of the Odebrecht contractor.
In September 2023, the minister determined that the evidence arising from the contractor’s leniency agreements are essential at any scope or degree of jurisdiction.
In December of the same year, he suspended the payment of the fine of R $ 10.3 billion applied against J&F in the group’s leniency agreement. Then came the suspension of the payment of fines arising from the agreement between Novoonor (former Odebrecht) and the.
Vaccari was arrested in April 2015 at the Penal Medical Complex in Pinhais, Curitiba Metropolitan Region. He was released in 2019.
In a statement, his lawyer, Luiz Flávio Borges d’erso, said that the decision “reaffirms what in countless previous decisions, had already crystallized, that the numerous criminal proceedings against him, as we have always sustained, were the result of a political persecution, as no crime had been committed” by Vaccari.
Split up
In the case of Palocci, the vote of Nunes Marques confirmed the previous decision of Toffoli, who annulled the acts of Lava Jato against the former Petista Minister, both in relation to the actions taken by the task force of the Federal Prosecutor and Moro.
The case is tried in the second class of the Supreme, which is composed of the two ministers and also by André Mendonça, Gilmar Mendes and Edson Fachin. Gilmar followed Toffoli’s vote, while the other two ministers managed to manifest themselves.
Nunes Marques had asked for a view (more time for analysis) from the trial and returned with his vote on Friday.
