TRF-1 Halts ANP Impartiality Decisions in Refit Case, Removes Two Directors From Related Votes

Overview

• TRF-1’s 11th Panel suspended ANP board acts that had rejected impediment and suspicion allegations against directors Pietro Mendes and Symone Araújo in the Refit proceeding.
• All judges followed rapporteur Rafael Paulo Soares Pinto to void the December deliberations and bar the two directors from any discussion or voting on those recusals.
• The ruling targets the decision process described by Refit as “votação cruzada,” and it does not address the technical merits of the interdiction, which stays in force.
• The Federal Prosecutor’s Office asked to remove the case from the court agenda so regional prosecutors can be heard, citing complexity and related investigations.
• ANP and the Federal Revenue allege a scheme of importing finished fuels misdeclared as petrochemical naphtha, with prior inspections seizing two ships carrying about 91 million liters of diesel and other inputs.