A group of more than 50 opposition parliamentarians filed this Monday (29) a request for impeachment against the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes. The initiative was led by federal deputy Marcel van Hattem (Novo-RS) and the leader of the opposition in the Chamber, Cabo Gilberto Silva (PL-PB).
The request was forwarded to the president of the Federal Senate and requests the loss of the position of minister of the STF, in addition to the disqualification of Moraes from holding public office for eight years.
The complaint is based on a newspaper report The Globewhich highlights alleged interference by the minister with the president of the Central Bank, Gabriel Galípolo, in favor of Banco Master, a private financial institution that was the target of investigations for billion-dollar fraud.
According to parliamentarians, there would be a conflict of interests in the case, since the law firm of the minister’s wife, Viviane Barci de Moraes, had a service provision contract with Banco Master. The agreement provided for millionaire monthly payments, which would total more than R$100 million over three years.
According to the complaint, Alexandre de Moraes had contacted the Central Bank on at least four occasions to discuss the sale of the bank’s assets to Banco de Brasília (BRB), an operation that depended on technical approval from the municipality. Central Bank technicians reported political pressure during the process.
Despite alleged intervention attempts, the Central Bank identified fraud estimated at R$12.2 billion and ordered the extrajudicial liquidation of Banco Master in November this year.
The authors of the request claim that the minister’s conduct violates Law No. 1,079/1950, which deals with crimes of responsibility, by alleging that there was action that was incompatible with the honor, dignity and decorum of the position.
The document gathers signatures from opposition parliamentarians, including senators and federal deputies. Now, it will be up to the president of the Senate to decide whether the request will proceed and whether a commission will be created to analyze the admissibility of the process.
