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Moraes is the rapporteur for these investigations and the deadlines for the investigations would end in January.
The investigation into the spread of fake news was opened in 2019, as determined by the then president of the STF, Dias Toffoli.
The investigation into undemocratic events was authorized in April of this year, at the request of the Attorney General, Augusto Aras.
On Tuesday, Moraes also expanded the investigation into whether President Jair Bolsonaro interfered with the Federal Police. The investigation is based on accusations by former Justice Minister Sergio Moro, and Bolsonaro denies any interference.
Please understand below the inquiries made by Moraes:
STF considers fake news investigation that investigates threats to the courts legal
The fake news probe would have to be completed on January 15, but Moraes extended the investigations for another 90 days, starting from that previous deadline.
Through the investigation, more than 18 search and seizure actions have been carried out. The crimes and aggressions that characterize crimes against the honor, physical integrity and life of the STF ministers were identified, in addition to crimes against the national security law practiced against the Judicial Power.
Most of the cases (72 investigations) were sent to lower courts, becoming police investigations.
In May, the STF carried out the most extensive operation in the investigation and reached out to politicians, businessmen and bloggers allied with President Jair Bolsonaro. Six federal deputies and the so-called “hate office” are at the center of the polls.
The researchers are now analyzing data on the existence of a structure for the disclosure of false information. the objective is to show the financing of these actions. The suspicion is that the businessmen who support the president act in a veiled way to provide resources that guarantee the performance of this network.
- Survey on undemocratic acts
The investigation into undemocratic events was opened in April, at the request of the Attorney General’s Office, and was due to conclude on December 25. Moraes understood that it is necessary to continue with the investigations and also gave the investigators three more months to work.
The case is in the Federal Police and more than 30 depositions have already been taken.
The central investigation deals with the performance of a network for the organization and financing of acts that demanded the closure of Congress and the STF and the reissue of AI-5, the toughest institutional act of the military dictatorship, which closed the Congress, annulled politicians and suspended rights, instituted press censorship. The findings have already reached politicians, businessmen, bloggers and Bolsonaro followers.
Criminal association and ‘hate office’
In one of his decisions, Moraes affirmed that the evidence gathered in recent months points to a “real possibility” of a criminal association involving the so-called “hate office.”
In the dispatch, Moraes explained that “hate office” was the name given by the parliamentarians heard in the investigation to the group that spreads false information and defamation on the Internet.
The evidence collected and the technical reports presented in the investigation pointed to the existence of a criminal association dedicated to the dissemination of false news, offensive attacks on various people, the authorities and institutions, including the Supreme Court, with flagrant hateful content . , subversion of order and incentive to break the institutional and democratic normality ”, wrote the minister.
