The Federal Supreme Court (STF) confirmed this Monday (7) that the R$28.6 million fine paid by the social network X to resume operating in Brazil was transferred to a Banco do Brasil account.
The measure was carried out after the amount was mistakenly deposited into a Caixa account. Once the payment is regularized, X’s request to unblock the platform will be sent for an opinion to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR). Next, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case, will decide whether to allow the social network to operate.
On August 30, Moraes took X offline after the company closed its office in Brazil and no longer had a legal representative in the country, a mandatory condition for any firm to operate.
Billionaire Elon Musk, owner of the social network, announced the closure of the company’s headquarters in Brazil after the network was fined for refusing to comply with the order to remove profiles of those investigated by the Court for publishing messages considered anti-democratic.
However, representation was reactivated in recent weeks, and lawyer Rachel Villa Nova returned to be the network’s legal representative. With the reopening of the representation and the payment of the fine, X asked the minister to return to the air.
