Flávio Bolsonaro Again Resorts to Supreme Court to Suspend Investigations

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PSL-RJ) once again appealed to the Federal Supreme Court in an attempt to suspend acts of an investigation into embezzlement and money laundering.

The proceeding has been in Rio’s Prosecutor’s Office since last year and is investigating suspicions of illegal “splitting”, as the return of part of his former cabinet employees’ salaries in Rio’s Legislative Assembly is known.

The claim has been drawn by Justice Gilmar Mendes.

Frederick Wassef, the senator’s lawyer, lodged a complaint in the STF alleging that a habeas corpus the defense had proposed was still being processed in the Rio Court of Justice after STF President Dias Toffoli’s decision in July.

At the time, the Justice suspended all investigations opened based on information shared by reports of the former Council for Control of Financial Activities (COAF).

Investigations into the senator began in July last year and were based on a report that found atypical financial transactions amounting to R$1.2 million (US$300 thousand) in the account of Fabrício Queiroz, Flávio’s former advisor.

In the claim lodged with the STF, on September 3rd, Flávio’s defense complains about the processing of a habeas corpus in the case in the 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Rio Court of Justice (TJ-RJ).

The defense has called for the suspension of proceedings due to Justice Toffoli’s decision, but Judge Antônio Amado said that the Justice’s decision does not apply to the habeas corpus proceedings.

Wassef calls on the STF to suspend all actions in the case until the judgment on the merits of the action discussing the sharing of COAF data with the Prosecutor’s Office.

Source: O Globo

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