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In the disciplinary process, the Supreme Court concluded that Fátima Galante helped Rangel to carry out other parallel activities, which resulted in money, thus violating the Statute of Judges. On the other hand, according to that judgment to which the Observer had access, Galante also received money outside of her orders. And sometimes it was she who asked the lawyer Santos Martins, also accused in Operation Lex and described as Rangel’s iron forehead – although the judge justified the payments he received as settlement of old debts, at a certain moment in his life in which he loaned him money.
And what happens now in the processes that had decisions signed by Rui Rangel but written, after all, by someone else? According to article 449 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, any decision can be reviewed at any time – “even if the procedure is extinguished or the sentence is prescribed or carried out” – if “another final judgment has been proven. crime committed by a judge or jury and related to the exercise of his function in the process ”, that is, if the magistrate who did it is convicted of crimes such as those charged to Rangel.
This means that if the judge, or even Fátima Galante, are convicted, a series of visa applications may begin to appear in the process that feel that there was no legal certainty in their decision. However, it will be necessary to wait for the judgment to be final, after all possible remedies, which means that this possibility will take several years.
After the disciplinary process, the Supreme Court concluded that the two judges violated the duties of seeking the public interest, independence and exemption, in addition to the duties of integrity, rectitude and probity inherent in the functions of judicial magistrate. Not to mention the secret justice cases that Rui Rangel shared with Fátima Galante.
