Civil society entities will promote, next Monday (2), an act to create a code of conduct for the (Supreme Federal Court). The event takes place at the Faculty of Law of Largo de São Francisco, at USP (University of São Paulo), starting at 5pm.
Entitled “Nobody Above the Law”, the act demands transparency for the Judiciary, with the aim of restoring social trust in higher courts, such as the Supreme Court.
The entities Transparência Brasil, Derrubando Muros and Instituto Humanitas 360 are leading the protest, and law professors from USP, also a columnist for Sheetand Eunice Prudente, as well as the president of the board of Natura, Fábio Barbosa, and the former president of Petrobras and BRF.
On that occasion, a manifesto will be read, launched in December. Signed by 200 people since then, the text says that an integral and transparent justice system is non-negotiable.
“The leadership of the Brazilian Judiciary has the constitutional mission of representing the highest standard of ethics, integrity and commitment to democratic values. However, it has demonstrated practices that raise suspicions and generate distrust, compromising its image”, says the manifesto.
In recent months, the STF has suffered an image crisis, after links were revealed between members of the court and the , whose liquidation was decreed last year.
Former owner of Master, he is suspected of defrauding the national financial system. The minister left the investigation report on the case this month. Toffoli was mentioned in the Federal Police report, in the context of an exchange of messages between the banker and his brother-in-law, Fabiano Zettel. They discussed payments to the company Maridt, which had Toffoli as one of its partners. In 2021, this company sold shares in a resort to an investment fund linked to Zettel.
In parallel, the law firm of the minister’s wife, Viviane Barci de Moraes, signed a contract with Master, providing for the payment of R$3.6 million per month, for three years.
