PGR Seeks More Time in STJ Decision‑Selling Probe as STF Orders PF Macro Inquiry Into Rio Organized Crime

Overview

• Prosecutor‑general Paulo Gonet asked STF Justice Cristiano Zanin to extend the PF inquiry into an alleged market for prearranged STJ rulings and to keep the targeted assessors removed from their posts.
• After reviewing the PF’s partial report, the PGR cited missing full extractions from seized devices and incomplete banking and flow analyses, and requested clarification on hypotheses such as communication shielding and the use of pre‑paid cards.
• The PF dossier describes a network of STJ staffers, intermediaries and lawyers securing prearranged decisions; Márcio José Toledo Pinto and Rodrigo Falcão were dismissed and Daimler Alberto de Campos remains afastado.
• Separately, Justice Alexandre de Moraes converted a preliminary proceeding into a formal PF inquérito to prioritize tracing of laundering schemes and suspected infiltration of criminal groups in public bodies, while demanding images of recent Rio operations and a PF status report.
• Moraes highlighted the lack of independent forensic autonomy in Rio and called for stronger external control by prosecutors, as the Senate’s new CPI on Organized Crime begins work under Fabiano Contarato and Alessandro Vieira with planned hearings of governors and federal officials.