Overview
- The Ministério Público do Rio de Janeiro filed for immediate execution of the 2018 civil-improbity sentence on Thursday, August 6, after Supreme Court minister Dias Toffoli maintained the conviction on August 4.
- The petition asks judges to notify the Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Rio de Janeiro and the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, add Garotinho to the national registry of improbity convicts, and enforce bans on public contracting.
- Prosecutors presented updated calculations that raise the original R$234.4 million restitution to about R$2.55 billion and also seek R$778,900 in civil fines and R$11.9 million for collective moral damages.
- Anthony Garotinho is running as the Republicanos pre-candidate for Rio de Janeiro governor and his legal team says the sanction became time-barred in June and will immediately contest the execution.
- The coming weeks are likely to focus on fast procedural fights over prescription and electoral eligibility, with judges deciding both whether the execution can proceed and how financial enforcement will be pursued.