Gilmar retreats and Collor’s trial will resume Monday

Minister Gilmar Mendes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) withdrawn the request for the prominence of the trial that discusses the maintenance of the decision of Minister Alexandre de Moraes that determined the arrest of former President Fernando Collor.

The order was published on Saturday (26). With this, the case analysis will resume next Monday (28), at 11am, in the virtual plenary of the Court. On Friday (25), the Supreme Court formed a majority of votes to keep the decision of Moraes.

To date, six ministers have voted to maintain the minister’s individual decision. In addition to Moraes, the votes were delivered by Flávio Dino, Edson Fachin, Luis Roberto Barroso, Cármen Lúcia and Dias Toffoli.

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Minister Cristiano Zanin is prevented from participating in the trial by acting as a lawyer in Operation Lava Jato’s cases before reaching the Supreme.

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Last Thursday (24), Moraes ordered the arrest of the former president, to begin compliance with the conviction to eight years and 10 months of detention for passive corruption and money laundering in one of Lava Jato’s proceedings.

In 2023, Collor was convicted by the Supreme Court. According to the conviction, the former president and former senator, as former PTB leader, was responsible for political nominations for BR Distribuidora, a subsidiary company of Petrobras, and received R $ 20 million in improper advantages in the company’s contracts.

According to the complaint, the crimes occurred between 2010 and 2014.

In determining the arrest, Moraes understood that Collor’s defense appeals to overthrow the conviction are delaying to avoid conviction.

Collor will be stuck in a prison in Maceió, where he lives.