A recently graduated doctor, who obtained a place on the medical course at the Federal University of Alagoas (Ufal) through alleged fraud in the racial quota program, was ordered to compensate the educational institution in the amount of R$500 thousand.
The court decision was the result of a public civil action proposed by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF).
The doctor, whose name was not disclosed, joined the university in 2017, through a place reserved for the racial quota. However, according to the MPF, the student did not present any physical characteristics that confirmed that he was mixed race, as he declared during registration in the Unified Selection System (Sisu).
The MPF detailed that this and other cases of fraud in the racial quota system were identified by students from Ufal itself and presented to the university administration, which did not take action.
In 2021, the ministry filed a lawsuit against the medical student, so that he would be ordered to pay compensation for moral damages to Brazilian society.
The following year, in 2022, the 2nd Federal Court of Justice in Alagoas denied the compensation requests and, in September of the same year, the MPF appealed to the Federal Regional Court of the 5th Region (TRF-5), seeking to change the judicial decision of first instance.
As at that moment it would no longer be possible to call the black candidate who would have been entitled to the vacancy occupied by the then student who committed fraud, the MPF decided not to request the cancellation of enrollment.
However, the MP asked the Court that he be ordered to compensate Ufal for material damages, paying for each month attended at the public university the amount equivalent to the monthly fee for the medical course at private educational institutions. In this case, R$7,000 was stipulated for each month spent.
In addition, the Court also ordered compensation of R$50,000 for moral damages. In total, the newly graduated doctor must pay the total amount of R$500,000 – as medical graduation lasts around six years. The conviction was announced last week.
The MPF highlighted that the physical appearance of the candidate is essential to ensure the right to the racial quota, as it is precisely the physical characteristics of black people that make them victims of racial prejudice in Brazilian society.
Wanted by CNN the Federal University of Alagoas said it has nothing to declare about the case.
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