Kleber Cabral, president of Unafisco (Brazilian National Association of Tax Auditors), was summoned to testify following an order from the STF minister, according to the PF.
The testimony should take place this Friday (20). People close to Cabral say that the justification would be to provide clarification in a procedure that takes place under secrecy.
The entity’s president has publicly criticized the STF’s decisions on suspected data leaks from court ministers. In interviews, Cabral stated that one of the auditors allegedly involved was the target of a “false positive” by the court. He also said that the case was being treated disproportionately.
Unafisco, linked to the auditors, represents only one of the four servers suspected of involvement in data leaks: Ricardo Mansano de Moraes. Ricardo was the target of the operation on suspicion of accessing the data of a former stepdaughter of the minister, daughter of lawyer Guiomar Feitosa.
After the case, the auditor who worked in the Management of Tax Credit and Credit Law, in Presidente Prudente (SP).
Ricardo Mansano de Moraes’ defense states that he is a “professional with an unblemished reputation who, over years of work with the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service, has never responded to any functional absence”.
On Tuesday (17), A carried out four search and seizure warrants in , and , in an investigation investigating possible leaks of Revenue data involving STF ministers and their relatives.
Moraes’ determination was made based on a representation made by the (Attorney General’s Office).
According to the court, “several and multiple illicit accesses to the Brazilian Federal Revenue Secretariat system were found, followed by subsequent leaks of confidential information.”
The STF also says that there was “a possible improper leak of confidential data from ministers of the Federal Supreme Court, the Attorney General of the Republic and their family members, several and multiple illicit accesses to the system of the Federal Revenue Secretariat of Brazil were found, followed by a subsequent leak of confidential information”.