Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), gave former senator Magno Malta 15 days to explain alleged offenses to fellow minister Luís Roberto Barroso.
Last Monday, Barroso presented to the Court a criminal complaint against the former senator who, during a conservative event in the interior of São Paulo on Saturday, allegedly attributed to him crimes of aggression against a woman and also the crime of slander.
According to Moraes, the case is connected to investigations that investigate the dissemination of false and fraudulent content with the aim of attacking the Judiciary (in particular, the STF), undermining its credibility and threatening its independence.
“Evidence of alleged violations has a direct bearing on the investigation still being conducted. The facts attributed in this complaint resemble, to a marked degree, the modus operandi of the criminal organization investigated in Court inquiries,” he said.
In the document, Barroso’s defense stated that “the allegation that the Complainant would have physically assaulted a woman with whom he maintains or maintained any personal relationship is absolutely unfounded.”
wanted by CNN, the former senator has not yet spoken.
Through the advice of the STF, Minister Barroso’s office informed that, in 2013, an appeal from an unknown lawyer arrived at the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), in a lawsuit against several public agents. Among them, judges, prosecutors and the minister himself, at the time a lawyer.
“The aforementioned lawyer, in a delusional story, claimed to have been morally attacked on the rostrum during a support. The minister never even saw the aforementioned lawyer. The fact simply did not happen, and the appeal was filed. There is no trace of veracity in Magno Malta’s speech.
When shelving the case, Minister Eliana Calmon, of the STJ, determined that the information from the process with the false accusations be sent to the Public Ministry and the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) to investigate possible criminal and administrative infractions committed by the lawyer.
Source: CNN Brasil
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