The attorney’s office contested an action for compensation for moral damages filed by the family of the minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), against senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE) on charges of associating her with the .
The lawsuit was filed at the end of March asking that the senator be ordered to pay R$20,000 to each of the co-authors, for statements made in an interview given in March with SBT News, about irregularities involving the .
According to the petition, the senator said that there is “circulation of resources between this criminal group and family members of ministers Dias Toffoli and Alexandre de Moraes”.
Federal Revenue documents indicate that Daniel Vorcaro’s company. The lawyer’s name reached a peak in Google searches this Tuesday (2), after the Senate’s challenge was reported by the Metrópoles portal, data from Google Trends shows.
According to the statement presented by the Center for the Defense of Parliamentary Prerogatives of the Senate, the request was made based on selective excerpts that lead to an error in interpretation of the senator’s speech.
According to the defense, by generically mentioning the minister’s family members, he would have made an immediate clarification. “It is not reasonable to say now that this circulation of resources is illicit. Morally speaking, it is absolutely reprehensible. Legally speaking, we will have more steps to verify.”
The defense says that the statement shows that the senator acted in good faith and did not anticipate guilt or assert that there was a crime. It would also not be possible, according to the lawyers, to talk about damages, since there was no name mentioned as to who the minister’s family members would be.
“At no time did the senator name the authors, or even the “spouse” and “children” of minister Alexandre de Moraes. The senator contextualized his speech in the CPI investigation into fund-to-fund transfers, which went through Banco Master via Reag, presenting his personal considerations on the topic, as well as the need to investigate the facts with the installation of a new CPI (from Banco Master)”.
Lawyers cite STF decisions on parliamentary immunity, highlighting that it protects demonstrations inside and outside the . At the time of the interview, Vieira was a rapporteur for the CPI of . The defense also asks for the action to be transferred from São Paulo to Brasília, where the interview was given.
The objection was made on May 22nd. Moraes’ family has 15 days to respond. When contacted by the report, Viviane Barci de Moraes’ office declined to comment on the case.
