The National Council of Justice (CNJ) decided this Tuesday (10) to maintain the precautionary removal of federal judge Sandro Nunes Vieira, a magistrate cited in the Federal Police (PF) report that indicted former president Jair Bolsonaro and 36 people accused of the attempt of coup in 2022.
Unanimously, the CNJ decided to confirm the individual decision of the national inspectorl of Justice, minister Mauro Campbell Marques, who, on November 28, ordered the removal of Sandro Nunes Vieira after receiving a letter from minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), communicating the mention of the magistrate’s name in the investigations. He was never investigated in the coup investigation.
According to the Federal Police, Sandro Vieira would have participated in the report commissioned by PL from the Instituto Voto Legal (IVL), following the results of the second round of elections, to allege alleged fraud in electronic voting machines.
Reserved session
The session in which the counselors maintained their absence was held privately, without public participation or live broadcast on YouTube. According to the magistrate, the secret deliberation took place because the disciplinary process is under judicial secrecy.
Before voting began, Mauro Campbell asked that only the parties’ advisors, civil servants and lawyers remain in the plenary. The president of the CNJ and the STF, Luís Roberto Barroso, was not present, and the session was chaired by counselor Guilherme Caputo Bastos.
“I would ask everyone for permission, because I am going to order the plenary to be emptied and the transmission to be suspended because we are going to enter into a procedural trial on a reserved basis,” said Campbell.
Defense
In a note released after his name emerged in the investigations, Sandro Vieira declared that he never had contact with the president of the PL, Valdemar da Costa de Neto, and that he does not issue “public opinions or value judgments on processes with political connotations”.
