STF First Panel Forms Majority to Make Ex‑TSE Aide Tagliaferro a Defendant

Overview

• Alexandre de Moraes, Cristiano Zanin and Flávio Dino voted to accept the PGR’s complaint, leaving only Cármen Lúcia’s vote pending in the 1st Panel’s virtual session.
• The Prosecutor‑General charged Eduardo Tagliaferro with violating official secrecy, coercion during legal proceedings, obstructing an investigation involving a criminal organization and attempting the violent abolition of the democratic order.
• According to the case files, Tagliaferro leaked confidential communications from STF and TSE staff to the press, conduct judges said fed a campaign to delegitimize institutions and intimidate the court.
• Tagliaferro remains in Italy under local restrictions, Brazil has requested his extradition, and an Italian hearing is scheduled for Dec. 17.
• Defense counsel Eduardo Kuntz withdrew to “lower the temperature” with the court and said Paulo Farias will assume representation, while Kuntz himself is under investigation over exchanges with Mauro Cid.