Overview
- Supreme Court minister André Mendonça has ordered that all acts in the INSS inquiry be immediately added to the case in his STF cabinet and that any removal of police investigators be reported to the court.
- Those measures also restrict who in the Federal Police may see shared investigative material, a step that narrows operational access by PF leadership to parts of the probes.
- The Federal Police appealed Mendonça’s determinations to the Attorney-General’s Office (AGU), creating a formal institutional dispute over investigative autonomy.
- The Justice Minister arranged a meeting between Mendonça and the AGU to ease tensions while some related inquests have been partly reassigned away from Mendonça’s docket.
- Commentators warn the moves echo past episodes of judicial centralization under other high-profile magistrates and say the dispute could further politicize probes that touch politically connected figures such as Lulinha.