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The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) denounced on Saturday night (2), the judge of the Court of Justice of Bahia (TJ / BA) Lígia Maria Ramos Cunha, her children Arthur and Rui Barata, as well as three other lawyers. The group must answer for the criminal organization. The complaint is the sixth filed before the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) since the outbreak of Operation Occidental in 2019.
Four days earlier, the MPF also filed another complaint in which Judge TJ-BA Ilona Reis participated, as well as lawyers Fabrício Bôer da Veiga, Júlio César Cavalcanti Ferreira and Marcelo Junqueira Ayres Filho.
The investigation front investigates crimes such as the participation of magistrates for the benefit of those interested in decisions such as those that allowed the undue regularization of lands in the western region of the state. In return, public officials received millionaire bribes.
In the specific case, detailed in the petition sent on Saturday to the rapporteur of the case at the STJ, Minister Og Fernandes, those involved are accused of receiving R $ 950 thousand in undue advantages in a scheme that included decisions by Judge Lígia Cunha in four cases. In three of them, the magistrate, who has been in preventive detention since December 14, was the rapporteur.
In the complaint, the deputy attorney general Lindôra Maria Araújo details the participation of each member of the scheme based on evidence obtained during the preliminary investigations. Part of this evidence was based on information and documents provided by Júlio César Cavalcanti Ferreira, who signed an award-winning collaboration agreement with the MPF.
Júlio Cesar told investigators how the scheme worked, which he reported began in August 2015, with the promotion of Lígia Ramos to the position of judge. The group’s criminal activity persisted until December 2020, even with the successive phases of Operation Occidental. The complaint mentions evidence that the magistrate acted to hinder the investigations, determining, for example, that an adviser destroyed evidence of the crimes. In addition to the judge, the children and Júlio César, Diego Freitas Ribeiro and Sérgio Celso Nunes Santos were also denounced.
According to the petition, when he was working as an advisor at the TJ, Diego approached Júlio César to look for cases that could be negotiated by the group. For the job, the then server received, in 2016, between R $ 5,000 and R $ 10,000. “Later, upon realizing the profitability of the mission, his extensive network of contacts in the second degree of jurisdiction and the desire to enrich himself, like his cronies, Júlio César placed, in 2018, his own law firm, winning, to from then on, percentage of the value of the agreed rate ”, highlights one of the extracts from the document.
Data from the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) increased the transactions of R $ 24.5 million (R $ 24,526,558.00) of Júlio César in the investigated period. In only one of the episodes of the case denounced by the employee, the payment of R $ 400 thousand in bribes was agreed. In this case, Júlio César kept R $ 100 thousand and the other R $ 300 thousand were transferred to the judge’s children who, in return, had to “accompany the said sentence and influence the respective judges”, guaranteeing the provision of resource. interest of group members.
Even in relation to the evidence of the existence and scope of the criminal organization, the complaint mentions an intense exchange of telephone calls between those involved, especially on dates close to or after the decisions made by the judge, as well as related to the days in that financial transfers or transfers were made. cash. Only from the phone of Rui Barata (son of the judge) 106 calls were identified from the others investigated in the period from October to December 2018. For the MPF, these findings make clear the stability of the criminal activity.
