Minister Gilmar Mendes in plenary (Dorivan Navy / SCO / STF / Handout)
Minister Gilmar Mendes of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) said on Wednesday believe that the court can make a "course correction" in the decision opened gap for slicing processes of Operation Lava jet.According to him, the court may re-examine "very carefully" the verdict which allowed removing from the hands of the judge Sergio Moro actions on other than those relating directly to Petrobras.
In a decision that blurred the future of investigations into the biggest corruption scandal in Brazilian history, the Supreme ruled on Wednesday that Moro should not be necessarily with the shares resulting from the initial investigation into the corruption scheme at Petrobras. Ministers judged a specific case of investigations, Pixuleco Phase II, and ruled that the case concerning the former councilman PT Alexandre Romano is sent from Curitiba to Sao Paulo and that the investigation of Senator Gleisi Hoffmann get out of the hands of the minister Teori Zavascki, Rapporteur of petrolão actions in the Supreme Court.
Although the court's decision has been taken only in the process involving Roman and Gleisi, the effects are devastating. From now on, the way is open to a barrage of questioning resources, for example, because the corruption scheme in Angra 3, is not on trial in Rio de Janeiro or the claiming of the criminal actions of former treasurer PT João Vaccari Neto in the accompanying drawings petrolão could not transact in court of. Even after the Supreme Court decision, Judge Sergio Moro denied this week asked the Odebrecht construction company, still made in August to the suspicions against the contractor are not judged in Curitiba.
"Surely this [the Supreme Court] decision shall be liable to requests for clarification and we have to make a closer examination. This is not to interpret the old Code of Criminal Procedure made in 1941 in the light of conditions on the reigning time. But we're talking about a criminal organization. The ramifications are very worrying and evident, "he warned on Wednesday Gilmar Mendes. "We need to understand the connection or continence under the new law of criminal organization, which is enabling these advances with winning snitching and all good results. It is possible to find ways to make a distinction and perhaps do some course correction . I hope that this will be done, "he added.
The minister said that if the Supreme not review the decision to allow the slicing of Operation Lava Jet, "we run the risk of having to make a great tasting sharing effort between Curitiba and other bodies".
"We need to discuss this very carefully," said the magistrate after meeting with the president of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ).
