Magistrate is suspected of stealing two bottles of French Moët & Chandon champagne from a supermarket in Blumenau
The TRF-4 (Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region) removed judge Eduardo Appio, from the 18th Federal Court of Curitiba, after he became the target of a French champagne campaign in a supermarket in Blumenau, Santa Catarina.
According to information from the magazine Lookthe leave will be maintained until the end of the administrative process, which is carried out in secrecy.
The case took place on October 4, but the description of the suspect given in the report does not correspond to that of the magistrate. According to a supermarket security guard, the perpetrator of the theft was “a man aged approximately 72 years old, who wears glasses, with an approximate height of 1.76 meters”.
Despite this, he would have left the crime scene in a Jeep Compass Longitude D registration number RCU7G18, which belongs to Appio.
O Poder360 He contacted Eduardo Appio’s office to ask if he would like to comment on the episode, but received no response until the publication of this report. The space remains open.
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Eduardo Appio took over in February 2023 the seat left by former judge and now senator Sergio Moro. The vacancy belonged to Luiz Antonio Bonat, who had been in charge of the Lava Jato operation since 2019. Bonat left the position after receiving a promotion to the 2nd Instance.
Critical of Lava Jato’s measures and the arrest of the president (PT), the judge declared in May of the same year that the investigation into the task force was not a “revenge”but from a “reckoning with the truth”.
On the same day that the statement was made, the TRF-4 decided, by majority, to remove Appio from the position of head of the Lava Jato operation in Paraná, in the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba. The Court also annulled the magistrate’s decisions.
