Prosecutors Demand Breach of Tax, Banking Secrecy of STF Presiding Justice Toffoli

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The National Association of Members of the Public Prosecution Office — MP Pro-Sociedade — filed a 39-page accusation with the Prosecutor General’s Office seeking the removal of bank and tax secrecy for Presiding Justice Dias Toffoli of Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF).

The group of prosecutors alleges illegalities committed by the current president of the Federal Supreme Court in suspending all investigations in the country based on data from Coaf, Brazil’s Federal Revenue, and the Central Bank, thus extending the granting of Flavio Bolsonaro’s petition in the case of the Federal Supreme Court related only to the senator himself.

The document also alleges illegalities in the opening of investigations into alleged fake news and offenses against the STF justices, and in certain decisions taken in the ruling of the investigation , including censorship of Crusoé magazine, the denial of Raquel Dodge’s filing of an appeal, and the suspension of investigative proceedings by Brazil’s federal revenue relating to 133 taxpayers, among them Toffoli’s wife.

MP Pro-Sociedade asks Raquel Dodge:

• To order a breach of fiscal secrecy, under Article 198 – 1-I of the National Tax Code, of José Antonio Dias Toffoli, his wife Roberta Maria Rangel, and the law firm owned by the latter.
• To order decree of removal of banking secrecy from all deposit accounts, savings accounts, investment accounts and other assets, rights and values held in financial institutions by José Antonio Dias Toffoli, his wife Roberta Maria Rangel, and the law firm owned by the latter, from 01/01/2008 to 08/01/2019, and granting thirty (30) days from the Central Bank’s communication to the financial institutions to comply with this determination.