The government included Viviane Barci, wife of the minister, (Supreme Federal Court), and the institute that belongs to the magistrate’s family on the list of.
The punishment, which had already been applied to the minister, was extended after pockets pointed out that Viviane would be an important financial arm of the family.
The inclusion was made during a trip by the President (PT) to New York to participate in the General Assembly of (United Nations Organizations), imposing an embarrassment to the Brazilian delegation.
The tendency is for Lula to respond to Trump during a speech in the assembly debate on Tuesday (23). Brazil is the first to speak, followed by the US.
Viviane is a partner in a law firm and one of the owners, along with her children, from the Lex Institute of Legal Studies, which was also included in the law’s sanctions list. The entity was founded by Moraes in 2000, but then passed on to family control.
The institute owns 11 properties, one of them being the residence of Moraes in São Paulo.
In August, Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (-SP) told the Sheet that he had perception of the Donald Trump government that he sanctioned Moraes without including Viviane. He described it at the time as the “financial arm” of the STF magistrate. The motivation would be that part of the couple’s performance is the result of her performance as a lawyer.
“This can occur [a sanção a Viviane]. As is well known, relatives’ law firms are mapped and may be sanctioned depending on how authorities react, “Eduardo said at the time.
Moraes was sanctioned in August with the magnitsky law. The standard is used to punish those who commit serious human rights violations and has been used against dictators in the past.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, states that the minister has committed abuses by authorizing unjust preventive arrests and making decisions that, according to him, undermine freedom of expression.
Moraes had said in an interview with Reuters in August to expect Trump’s change of stance to reverse the sanctions imposed against him, stating that there would be a lack of consensus within the US government agencies. He said awaits a diplomatic solution.
“A judicial challenge is fully possible [nos Estados Unidos] And so far I have not found any Brazilian or American teacher or lawyer who thinks justice would not reverse. But right now, I wait – and it was my option – wait for the country’s diplomatic issue, Brazil and the United States, “he said at the time.
He attributed the inclusion in the list to Bolsonaro’s allies campaign and said that when “information is correctly past, to the US government,” I believe it will not even be necessary any lawsuit to reverse. “” I believe the US executive branch itself will reverse, “he said.
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The magnitsky law provides that it can be included in the list of sanctioned those who collaborate with US condemned conduct.
The punished person receives a sanction from OFAC, a foreign asset control office, which belongs to the US Treasury Department.
Through the decision, the US government determines the freezing of any good or asset that the sanctioned person has us and can also ban US financial entities from doing dollar operations with them.
The measure would include the use of MasterCard and Visa credit card flags, for example. The effects on Moraes’ transactions in reais in Brazil are still under bank analysis.
