Reason for the conflict between the Supreme Court and Lava Jato: prosecutors allegedly pressured Odebrecht to implicate Toffoli.
Ministers, speaking off the record to BuzzFeed News, attributed the strain suffered by the president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Dias Toffoli, to an action by prosecutors from the Lava Jato task force in Curitiba. According to these magistrates, lawyers for Marcelo Odebrecht brought to the STF the allegation that there was pressure from prosecutors for him to mention Toffoli's name in his plea bargain – even without implicating him in any crime. The mention of Toffoli would later be used to pressure the STF to maintain the authorization for imprisonment after conviction in the second instance. However, the material ended up being obtained by Crusoé magazine, which published a report about the "friend of my father's friend" last week.
247 - The war being waged between the Supreme Federal Court and Lava Jato gained a new episode this Tuesday, the 16th. Ministers were heard off the record by the website. BuzzFeed News They attributed the damage suffered by the president of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Dias Toffoli, to an action by prosecutors from the Lava Jato task force in Curitiba.
According to ministers interviewed by BuzzFeed, Marcelo Odebrecht's lawyers have alleged to the Supreme Court that prosecutors pressured him to mention Toffoli's name in his plea bargain testimony – even though he was not implicated in any crime.
The ministers believe that the citation of Toffoli would be used, later on, to pressure the Supreme Court to maintain the authorization for imprisonments after conviction in the second instance. But the material ended up being obtained by Crusoé magazine, which published a report about the "friend of my father's friend" last week.
The Crusoé report was censored by order of Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), which prompted a series of criticisms regarding freedom of expression in journalistic work, including within the STF itself. Minister Marco Aurélio Mello described the measure as "a setback in democratic terms" (read more).