Senator became a defendant for attributing passive corruption to minister Gilmar Mendes; score is 4-0 against appeal
Minister Luiz Fux, from the STF (Supreme Federal Court), asked for more time to analyze the appeal in which the senator (União-PR) intends to overturn the decision that made him a defendant for the crime of slander against minister Gilmar Mendes.
With the request for more time to analyze the case, the virtual trial was suspended and does not yet have a date to resume.
The ministers had already voted on Friday (October 3, 2025) to reject an appeal by the congressman against the collegiate decision that made him a defendant. Ministers Flávio Dino and Cristiano Zanin followed their colleagues’ understanding.
The action taking place in the virtual plenary session under the report of Cármen Lúcia analyzes a complaint by the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) and unanimously by the 1st Panel in June 2024.
The complaint was made based on a video in which the former Operation Lava Jato judge appeared in a conversation with unidentified people during a June party, held in 2022, and stated: “This is bail, an institute to buy a habeas corpus from Gilmar Mendes”.
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During the trial in which the senator became a defendant, lawyer Luiz Felipe Cunha, Moro’s representative, defended the rejection of the complaint and said that the parliamentarian had publicly recanted. To the lawyer, Moro used an unhappy expression.
“An unfortunate expression recognized by me and by him as well. In a joking environment, in a festive atmosphere, on an uncertain date, my client made a joke talking about the eventual purchase of his freedom, if he were arrested in that June festive joke circumstance”these.
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