Gilmar Mendes recognizes Serra’s privileged forum in the investigation of case 2 | Politics

In July, José Serra was the target of an operation by the Federal Justice of São Paulo, with the participation of the Electoral Public Ministry, which investigates the alleged box two of R $ 5 million in the campaign for the Senate in 2014.

In the minister’s opinion, the case should go ahead in the Supreme Court, given the senator’s jurisdiction. This is because, for Mendes, the events go beyond Serra’s campaign for the Senate in 2014 and reach the legislature in the Senate.

Mendes complied with a defense request and determined that the Attorney General’s Office should comment on the case, given the risk of prescription. A process expires when the term provided by law expires during which there may be a penalty.

Since Serra is over 70 years old, the statute of limitations is cut in half and can end until September 11.

“It should be noted that the eventual occurrence of the statute of limitations has nothing to do with the performance of this Court or with reasons related to the slowness of the Judiciary,” said the minister. “It is important to reinforce this point, so that any criticism of the Supreme Court as the organ responsible for the occurrence of this extinct cause of sanction is rejected,” he added.

According to the minister, although the Federal Court of São Paulo states that the senator’s current legislative activity is not being investigated, the elements indicated by the defense point to a different conclusion. Mendes says that the researchers requested a survey of possible actions by Serra in health that could have benefited companies in the sector, with an event that occurred in 2019 and that seven bills were presented during the period from 2015 to 2020.

“It should be noted that during the 2014 campaign the complainant was not even exercising any elective mandate that could lead to actions and health projects in favor of Qualicorp or the co-investigated José Seripieri Filho. Therefore, it is clearly concluded that there was a search for evidence after the events that occurred during the campaign, “he wrote.