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The President of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Minister Dias Toffoli, attended this Friday (28) at the request of the defense of the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando Pezão, in order to prevent a possible transfer of sound from January 1, the special battalion of prisons of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police to another prison.
The defense filed its application after Minister Alexandre de Moraes denied the freedom of liberty in Pezão, held since 29 November at the headquarters of the military police in Niterói, in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro.
will lose the so-called privileged forum and could possibly be transferred to another penitentiary unit.
Lawyers alleged a "serious risk" to the governor's personal safety. "He has just left office and will have contacts with other inmates, which is not commendable at all".
According to Toffoli, a minister of service who decides only cases considered urgent during the suspension of the judiciary, the measure is justified "against the dignity of the post occupied".
According to the decision, the objective is "to prevent the admission of any type of measure likely to compromise the personal, physical and psychological security" of the governor.
Pezão was arrested as part of the operation called "Boca de Lobo", based on the award to the market of Carlos Miranda, financial operator of the former governor Sérgio Cabral.
The operation investigates the crimes of money laundering, criminal organization and active and pbadive bribery.
Pezão is the fourth governor of Rio to be arrested – the first in the exercise of his mandate.
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