On the afternoon of this Friday (27), the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Gilmar Mendes, annulled the decision of the Organized Crime CPI to break the confidentiality of Maridt Participações SA, a company linked to the Toffoli family. According to the judge, the parliamentary committee exceeded the limits of its investigative competence by targeting the company without a direct connection with the collegiate’s original objective. For Mendes, the Legislative’s power of investigation, although broad, must strictly respect the limits imposed by the Federal Constitution and cannot be used for persecutions without evidentiary support.
Furthermore, Maridt’s lawyers filed a request for habeas corpus so that a decision handed down in 2021 by Gilmar Mendes, suspending the breach of confidentiality of the production company Brasil Paralelo by Covid’s CPI, could be extended to Maridt.
The company’s partners include Minister Dias Toffoli and received payments from a fund linked to Banco Master. The breach of confidentiality was due to a request, authored by Senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE), and required the Financial Activities Control Council, Coaf, to provide consistent information in the preparation of Financial Intelligence Reports and to break the company’s banking, tax, telephone and telematic secrecy. The Organized Crime CPI had approved the measures for the period between 2022 and 2026 in a session last Wednesday (25), in addition to the breaches of confidentiality at Banco Master and the company Reag Trust.
