Judge of the Tacla Duran case asks for removal from Lava Jato

Judge Marcelo Malucelli, from the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF4), asked this Thursday (20) to remove himself from the reporting of Operation Lava Jato cases. In the decision, the magistrate declared himself a suspect in order to analyze the appeals of those being investigated in the second instance. The statement came after Malucelli began responding this week to a lawsuit filed by the National Council of Justice (CNJ) to determine whether the magistrate failed to comply with a decision by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) that suspended the investigation involving lawyer Rodrigo Tacla Duran, defendant in a of the Lava Jato processes. When issuing a decision involving Duran, the judge was accused of having personal relationships with the family of Senator Sergio Moro (União-PR), a fact that would prevent him from analyzing the case. “In view of the occurrence of circumstances subsequent to the date on which I took over the proceedings arising from this operation, pending before the Federal Court of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba/PR and which are related to the physical and moral integrity of members of my family, I declare my supervening suspicion, for reasons of intimate nature, to act in this and all other processes related by prevention, as of this date”, argued Malucelli. Accusation Last month, during a hearing with Judge Eduardo Appio, of the 13th Federal Court in Curitiba, Tacla Duran said he was the target of persecution for not accepting being extorted during the process in which he is a defendant. Duran said he was contacted by a person who acted as an electoral force for the Moro campaign and a lawyer linked to his wife, Rosangela Moro, who would have offered a plea bargain during the investigations. From the mentions, Appio decided to send the case to the Supreme, the court responsible for analyzing issues involving parliamentarians with privileged jurisdiction. After the disclosure of the statement, Senator Moro said that he does not fear any investigation: “since 2017 [Tacla Duran] makes false accusations, without any proof, save those which he himself fabricated”.

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