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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Marcelo Crivella (Republicans) must be placed under house arrest immediately. This was determined by Minister Humberto Martins, president of the Superior Court of Justice. He ordered the court’s criminal law processing coordinator, this Wednesday afternoon (12/23), to issue a release permit.
Tânia Rêgo / Agência Brasil
The minister also determined that the president of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice, Judge Cláudio de Mello Tavares, should inform, within a maximum period of 48 hours, on the breach of the precautionary measure in habeas corpus.
This Tuesday, the minister granted HC the replacement of the preventive prison of Crivella by house arrest, with an electronic anklet. However, the dismissed mayor was detained until this afternoon.
This is because, first thing in the morning, the TJ-RJ on duty, Judge Joaquim Domingos de Almeida Neto, said that he could not act in the case and determined that the records be sent to the rapporteur. Judge Rosa Helena dispatched the file, but did not issue the release permit either. Before that, he ordered that a search and search and seizure order be made at Crivella’s home.
The new decision of Humberto Martins welcomes the defense of the mayor, made by lawyers Ticiano Figueiredo me Alberto Sampaio Jr. They reported that the Court was delaying compliance with the precautionary measure.
The precautionary measures are in force until Minister Antonio Saldanha Palheiro, a reporter for the HC filed by the defense at the STJ, analyzes the request – which must happen after the end of the forensic vacation.
“Tip HQ”
Marcelo Crivella was one of six people arrested on Tuesday after investigations into an alleged “bribery headquarters” in the Rio mayor’s office. According to the state prosecutor’s office, the businessmen paid bribes to secure contracts with the municipality and also to more easily receive amounts owed by public safes.
The investigations originated in the award-winning collaboration of a money changer arrested in one of the “lava jet” developments in Rio. The MP names the mayor as the leader of the alleged criminal organization and also accuses him of the crimes of passive corruption, active corruption and money laundering. .
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HC 636,740
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