Post by anik4200 on Feb 18, 2024 11:27:42 GMT
Judiciary Police Department of the Interior-6, seized 26 kilos of the drug hidden in a load of bullets and lollipops, which would be shipped by ship to Europe. However, according to the Federal Police, the agents were left with 400 kilos of the toxic substance. The alleged embezzlement was discovered after analyzing the contents of the cell phones seized from the criminalist during the investigation of other facts. Despite numerous efforts, the drug that had allegedly been stolen by public agents was never located. Processs up to the Regional Electoral Court of Paraíba (TRE-PB) to judge the cases linked to an investigation against former state governor Ricardo Coutinho. The decision was made by Minister Sérgio Banhos, of the Superior Electoral Court, in a decision this Wednesday (29/3). Abdias Pinheiro/SECOM/TSE Abdias Pinheiro/SECOM/TSE Sergio Banhos The decision ends a pending conflict of jurisdiction that has been going on for around four years.
It is a consequence of an appeal filed by one of those investigated in the operation, Valdemar Abila. Banhos decided that all procedural incidents arising from the criminal investigative procedure (PIC) must be assessed by the TRE, as a provisional judgment. Also according to the TSE minister, "it is worth noting that, up to the present moment, between the comings and goings of the files from the TJ-PB to the TRE-PB, their retu Special Phone Number Data rn to the TJ-PB and again forwarding to the Electoral Court, the complaint was not even received." The target of the investigation, dubbed "operation calvary" by the investigative bodies, is former governor Ricardo Coutinho, identified as the leader of a criminal organization that allegedly embezzled public money through the fraudulent hiring of social organizations for the management of health and education services. in the state between 2011 and 2018, in addition to two dozen other people belonging to his political group.
The accusations were made by the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco) of the Public Ministry of Paraíba, headed by prosecutor Octávio Paulo Neto, and accepted by judge Ricardo Vital, rapporteur of the case at TJ-PB. The investigation began in 2019. Several people were arrested and are still serving precautionary measures. According to experts interviewed by the electronic magazine Consultor Jurídica , the operation uses the same laundering methods of action and the use of corruption investigations as a weapon of political persecution, a phenomenon known as lawfare . The investigation is based on plea bargains. The Paraíba task force even arrested state deputy Estela Bezerra without the consent of the Legislative Assembly of Paraíba, and prevented the former secretary of Education and former mayor of the city of Conde, Márcia Lucena, from participating in the burial ceremony of her own father, among other problems.
It is a consequence of an appeal filed by one of those investigated in the operation, Valdemar Abila. Banhos decided that all procedural incidents arising from the criminal investigative procedure (PIC) must be assessed by the TRE, as a provisional judgment. Also according to the TSE minister, "it is worth noting that, up to the present moment, between the comings and goings of the files from the TJ-PB to the TRE-PB, their retu Special Phone Number Data rn to the TJ-PB and again forwarding to the Electoral Court, the complaint was not even received." The target of the investigation, dubbed "operation calvary" by the investigative bodies, is former governor Ricardo Coutinho, identified as the leader of a criminal organization that allegedly embezzled public money through the fraudulent hiring of social organizations for the management of health and education services. in the state between 2011 and 2018, in addition to two dozen other people belonging to his political group.
The accusations were made by the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco) of the Public Ministry of Paraíba, headed by prosecutor Octávio Paulo Neto, and accepted by judge Ricardo Vital, rapporteur of the case at TJ-PB. The investigation began in 2019. Several people were arrested and are still serving precautionary measures. According to experts interviewed by the electronic magazine Consultor Jurídica , the operation uses the same laundering methods of action and the use of corruption investigations as a weapon of political persecution, a phenomenon known as lawfare . The investigation is based on plea bargains. The Paraíba task force even arrested state deputy Estela Bezerra without the consent of the Legislative Assembly of Paraíba, and prevented the former secretary of Education and former mayor of the city of Conde, Márcia Lucena, from participating in the burial ceremony of her own father, among other problems.
