The Supreme Court's lottery system will be audited in July.
The electronic system that distributes cases at the Supreme Federal Court (STF), which on Thursday appointed Minister Edson Fachin as the new rapporteur for the Lava Jato Operation cases, will undergo an external audit, scheduled for July when the Court will be in recess. This audit was ordered by Minister Cármen Lúcia, president of the STF, as soon as she took office last September. The company that will carry out the audit has not yet been defined, but according to court advisors, it should be a university. The court has not disclosed when the last audit of the system was conducted. As the audit was already scheduled, it would have no relation to the draw that determined Fachin to be the rapporteur for the Lava Jato cases at the court.
Brasilia 247 - The electronic system that distributes cases at the Supreme Federal Court (STF), which on Thursday appointed Justice Edson Fachin as the new rapporteur for the Lava Jato Operation cases, will undergo an external audit, scheduled for July, when the Court will be in recess. The audit was ordered by Justice Cármen Lúcia, president of the STF, as soon as she took office last September. The company that will carry out the audit has not yet been defined, but, according to court advisors, it should be a university. The court does not disclose when the last audit of the system was conducted. As the audit was already scheduled, it would have no relation to the draw that determined Fachin to report on the Lava Jato cases at the court.
The information comes from a report by Carolina Brígido in O Globo.
"In the morning, Cármen Lúcia wanted to attend the draw to ensure the process was normal. The minister was accompanied by three advisors. The draw was held on the third floor of the Supreme Court, in a room near the president's office. As soon as Fachin was drawn, Cármen Lúcia went to her office to inform her colleague by phone."
On the eve of the selection of the new rapporteur for Lava Jato, the Supreme Court appointed three technicians to explain how the draw works. Every case that arrives at the STF goes to the Judicial Secretariat, where it is registered. Then, the case is entered into a system that randomly selects the rapporteur who will handle it. The system is computerized and operated by the staff of the Judicial Secretariat.
According to Supreme Court (STF) technicians, the fact that Fachin had just moved to the Second Chamber did not give him a greater chance of being selected to handle the Lava Jato cases. This is because, according to the electronic system's rules, the selection does not take into account the number of cases the minister has in his office or in the chamber. The rule is based on the number of cases the minister received through the draw. Fachin has the fewest cases in the Second Chamber, since the position remained open for months. According to the technicians, however, each of the five members of the chamber had a 20% chance of receiving a case.