The wife of the judge of the Court of Justice of Mato Grosso do Sul, Divoncir Schreiner Maran – definitively removed from his career, but with salaries, by order of the CNJ – operated processes in the magistrate’s office and exercised ‘undue intermediation’ in actions within the jurisdiction of her husband.
Viviane Alves Gomes de Paula is mentioned in the Federal Police investigation investigating the escape of super drug dealer Gérson Palermo, ‘Pigmeu’, who benefited from house arrest during forensic duty, by order of Divoncir, in April 2020. The drug trafficker, identified as the boss of the PCC in the border region, broke his ankle bracelet and was never seen again.
O Estadão requested a statement from the judge via the Court of Justice and seeks contact with Viviane. The space is open. In the records of the Administrative Disciplinary Process to which he responded at the CNJ, Divoncir Maran claimed that he had no “knowledge of the circumstances” involving the drug trafficker when he granted house arrest.
Opportunity with security!
According to the PF, Viviane maintained ‘interference in procedural issues’ that should be dealt with directly between the judge and his immediate assistants.
The investigation shows that Divoncir’s wife was in direct contact with the office’s advisor, Fernando Carlana, dealing with the “procedural processing of cases submitted for consideration by the judge”.
“The magistrate’s companion transmitted to the advisor guidelines related to legal proceedings, at the magistrate’s request, exercising undue intermediation in matters that should be dealt with directly between the judge and his immediate assistants”, says the PF.
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‘Good afternoon, Viviane’
The inquiry, which served as the basis for the CNJ to remove the judge from his career, is reflected in the records of conversations via Whatsapp recovered between Viviane and the cabinet advisor, Fernando Carlana, called ‘Bob’ by his colleagues.
“Good afternoon, Viviane. How are you? That case went to trial today, okay? Now just wait for the vote”, wrote Fernando in April 2020.
“Good afternoon, Bob. Let’s wait, right. Thank you”, replied Divoncir’s wife.
For the researchers, “the ease that characterizes the communications between the interlocutors denotes familiarity with the procedure adopted, not being isolated episodes, but a habitual and apparently normalized practice, characterized by the intermediation of the magistrate’s partner in matters of a strictly jurisdictional nature, to whom the advisor reported to provide information about the preparation of decision minutes and the progress of processes”.
Counselor João Paulo Schoucair, rapporteur of the Disciplinary Administrative Process at the CNJ, which resulted in Divoncir’s compulsory retirement, stated that he received the dialogues between Bob and the judge’s wife with astonishment.
“The situation raises perplexity and strengthens the evidence regarding the configuration of a disciplinary offense attributable to the defendant, thus constituting a procedure incompatible with the dignity, honor and decorum of judicial functions, as well as with the functional duties of the judiciary”, argues the counselor.
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At the 1st Ordinary Session of 2026, two weeks ago, the National Council of Justice unanimously decided to impose compulsory retirement on the judge – a measure considered the most ‘drastic’ for a judge, as provided for in the Organic Law of the National Judiciary.
Maran retired, in fact, in April 2024, when he turned 75 years old. The compulsory retirement, now imposed on him, keeps him inactive, but deserving of salaries proportional to his time of service. The CNJ decided to forward copies of the process to the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul to file an action to revoke the judge’s retirement and all remuneration rights.
paper cattle
Mentioned in the CNJ report, the Federal Police investigation suspects that the judge received a bribe to grant house arrest to ‘Pigmeu’ and that the illicit money was laundered through the practice known as “paper cattle”. According to the investigation, one of the magistrate’s sons had traded livestock and received ‘considerable amounts’ in cash.
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In the document in which it suggested the indictment of the retired judge, the PF described the alleged path of the bribe paid in exchange for the court decision and pointed out the participation of his son as an intermediary in the operation.
“It is possible that the payment of bribes related to the sale of sentences takes place through the transfer of cattle, a common practice of money laundering, especially in Mato Grosso do Sul. In this situation, the judge, in order not to be directly contaminated with illicit money, would use his son, Vanio Maran, as an operator, in order to sell this cattle and ‘clean’ the money for the Maran Family”, points out the CNJ report.
The report seeks contact with Vanio Maran’s defense. The space is open.
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Pygmy, go home
‘Pigmeu’ had been imprisoned since April 2017, in a closed regime in Campo Grande. The Federal Police detained him during Operation ‘All In’, in March of that year, when 810 kilos of cocaine were seized. One of the sentences imposed on Palermo, 66 years in prison, occurred in the process in which he was accused of the hijacking of a Vasp Boeing, in August 2000, shortly after the plane took off from Foz do Iguaçu International Airport bound for Curitiba.
An airplane pilot and PCC leader, he broke his ankle bracelet and fled a few hours after being faced with the judge’s decision. ‘Pygmy’ was never located again.
The benefit to the mega-trafficker was granted during the Covid-19 pandemic, based on information from the defense about the prisoner’s supposedly weakened health, even without a medical report proving such an allegation.
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According to the investigation, the day after Divoncir Maran’s decision, the draft habeas corpus rapporteur, judge Jonas Hass Silva Júnior, revoked the injunction granted by his colleague and reinstated ‘Pigmeu”s prison – an opportunity in which he pointed out that there was no information in the case file that the prisoner was segregated in an overcrowded prison or that there was a record of health deficiencies or incidence of the virus. Covid-19.
According to the rapporteur of the Disciplinary Administrative Process (PAD), counselor João Paulo Schoucair, ‘the case goes beyond the limits of judicial independence and reveals a serious distortion of the jurisdictional function’.
