The Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, asked today (21) that the Federal Supreme Court (STF) remove the secrecy of nine preliminary investigations opened based on the final report of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on the Pandemic. By the end of November, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) had sent ten requests for an investigation.
With the decision, only one request will remain under judicial secrecy. In a note, the PGR reported that secrecy jeopardized “the access of society, those investigated and the press to the investigative measures already adopted, making it difficult to follow up on diligences, expertise, information, documents, data and analyzes that appear in the investigation”.
The opening of secrecy was a demand from the Pandemic CPI summit. On the 9th, senators Omar Aziz (PSD-AM), Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL) and Randolfe Rodrigues (Rede-AP) had asked the STF to overturn the secrecy.
Until now, it was not possible to know the content of the requests or the identity of those investigated. The PGR investigation requests were distributed to six different ministers in the Supreme Court.
Title changed at 12:08 pm on February 22, 2022 to correct information.
