The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) appealed this Tuesday (5) against Minister Gilmar Mendes’ decision that annulled the convictions of former minister José Dirceu in Operation Lava Jato. On October 28 of this year, Mendes responded to the annulment request made by Dirceu’s defense. 
For Dirceu’s lawyers, the Second Panel of the Court considered in 2021 that former judge Sergio Moro was partial when judging President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and ordered the annulment of the sentence involving the Guarujá triplex case. Thus, the former minister’s defense asked for the extension of the effects of the decision.
When defending the suspension of Gilmar Mendes’ injunction, the Attorney General of the Republic, Paulo Gonet, said that the legal situations of both cases are different. “Nor was there, in relation to the applicant, the remembered sequence of procedurally distorted acts, which were carried out by the magistrate against the defendant of the feat identified as paradigm,” said Gonet.
In 2016, Moro, then responsible for the 13th Federal Court in Curitiba and main judge who worked in Lava Jato, condemned Dirceu to 23 years and 3 months in prison for the crimes of corruption, money laundering and membership of a criminal organization. The conviction had been requested by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF).
