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00:00:0016th, then I determined that the
00:00:04records should be made available to the Attorney General's Office
00:00:07for comment. 17th, well,
00:00:10given the content of the information
00:00:14presented by the police authority,
00:00:17regardless of what the esteemed Attorney
00:00:20General's Office may decide,
00:00:23the inevitable path of these records
00:00:26leads to the plenary of this Federal Supreme Court.
00:00:30a sovereign instance to technically analyze
00:00:33strictly legally the new elements brought by the
00:00:37police authority. 18. as it could
00:00:40not be otherwise, due to constitutional imperative,
00:00:43an undeniable consequence of the democratic republican
00:00:46model, expressly adopted by the fundamental
00:00:50law of 1988, the
00:00:52aforementioned deliberation by the plenary of the court must
00:00:56occur publicly and transparently in a face-to-face session of the...
00:01:01from a date to be defined by the eminent president
00:01:04of this Federal Supreme Court, in
00:01:07full exercise of its regimental
00:01:11attributions. 19th,
00:01:14in fact, in a rule of law that truly intends to be
00:01:18democratic and republican, in which the legitimacy of
00:01:21institutions in general and the judiciary in particular
00:01:25rests on the effective knowledge by all
00:01:28its citizens of the motivations and
00:01:32foundations that underlie the decisions made by
00:01:35public authorities, there is no other possible
00:01:39deliberation than that enshrined
00:01:42as a true fundamental clause by the
00:01:45original constituent in item 9 of article
00:01:4893 of the 1988
00:01:50Charter.
00:01:53Item 9. All judgments of the judiciary
00:01:56shall be public and reasoned. All
00:02:00decisions under penalty of nullity, and the
00:02:03law may limit the presence in certain acts to the
00:02:07parties themselves and their lawyers, or only to
00:02:10these, in cases where the preservation of the right to
00:02:13intimacy or the interest in secrecy does not harm the
00:02:17public interest in
00:02:20body, with the sole information. 20. The aforementioned command is supplemented by the
00:02:24provision contained in item 60 of
00:02:27article 5, which ensures the guarantee of publicity of judgments
00:02:31even in the face of a law to be enacted by the National
00:02:35Congress. Based on the fundamental right guaranteed
00:02:38to all by the aforementioned provision, the
00:02:42law may only restrict the publicity of procedural
00:02:45acts when the defense of intimacy or social
00:02:48interest so requires.
00:02:51thus, in compliance with 21. And returning to item 9, article
00:02:5493, a guiding provision for the
00:02:57actions of all national judges, including,
00:03:00especially, this Federal Supreme Court,
00:03:04the presence of an express command is observed, prohibiting
00:03:08any possibility of secrecy if its imposition
00:03:11harms the public interest in
00:03:14information. 22. When
00:03:18analyzing the content of the information presented based
00:03:21the respective on such premises,
00:03:24which are the only ones applicable to the case, because they
00:03:28are established by the exclusive guiding principle of the
00:03:32conduct of the ministers of this Federal Supreme
00:03:35Court, namely the Constitution of the Federative Republic of
00:03:38Brazil, given the inevitable form
00:03:42and the inexorable locus of
00:03:45deliberation, it is all the more reason to
00:03:48immediately lift the secrecy of the present records.
00:03:5223, based on these
00:03:55reasons, I order the lifting of the secrecy of the present
00:03:58records, close quotes.
00:04:00of the citation. I continue with the report.
00:04:04On the same day, September 1st, the
00:04:07Attorney General's Office opined for the nullity of the
00:04:11request of Minister André Mendonça and its
00:04:15result, said the PGR. I open
00:04:18quotes, when the reporting minister ordered the
00:04:22investigation of people who were referred to in
00:04:25IPJ number such, he knew that
00:04:28among them there were people holding office by
00:04:31prerogative of function,
00:04:34subject to process and judgment only by the plenary
00:04:38of the Federal Supreme Court. He knew
00:04:41that among them was Minister Alexandre Moraes, he could
00:04:44not fail to know. The act that ordered
00:04:47the Federal Police investigation dates from August 24, 2026, the
00:04:51rapporteur had
00:04:55long had all the pieces he
00:04:58wanted detailed in writing, continues the
00:05:02PGE, I am quoting literally, indeed,
00:05:04the name of Minister Alexandre Moraes was notoriously
00:05:08mentioned in the previous police
00:05:11reports, to which the order for investigation alluded,
00:05:14and this was widely reported in the press. The
00:05:18rapporteur himself had already ordered that the
00:05:21computer device containing
00:05:24all the data that would later be included in the police
00:05:28report be handed over to him. In any case, it is certain that the
00:05:31rapporteur wanted it to be thoroughly
00:05:34scrutinized. It does not matter the degree of
00:05:37investigation that the measure constitutes. It is undeniable that there was an immersion of
00:05:40elements from the records to seek
00:05:44indications of the involvement of Minister
00:05:47Alexandre Moraes in illicit acts.
00:05:51The PGR continues. By requesting that the elements of
00:05:53investigation be examined, no matter who
00:05:57the authority was, the reporting minister imposed
00:06:01the investigation of Minister Alexandre Moraes, which actually
00:06:04ended up happening in
00:06:06almost 190, 190
00:06:09pages of the 200. 18
00:06:13that make up the police study,
00:06:15however, it is up to the plenary of the Federal Supreme
00:06:19Court to investigate its members.
00:06:23Article 33, sole paragraph of the National
00:06:26Magistracy Organic Law provides.
00:06:30And here, then, is the citation of the
00:06:33law. I continue reading the PGR's
00:06:37statement:
00:06:41Who is competent to process and judge a
00:06:45minister of the STF is the plenary of the Court, article
00:06:48102, item I, letter B of the Federal Constitution and
00:06:52article 5, item 1 of the STF's internal
00:06:55regulations. If the police authority must
00:06:59interrupt its investigations so that the
00:07:02judiciary body responsible for the judgment can deliberate
00:07:05on them, all the more reason the rapporteur
00:07:09should not admit or order that a colleague from the
00:07:12court be scrutinized.
00:07:15In reality, the rapporteur does not even have
00:07:18competence to direct police
00:07:21actions against targets he decides to aim at.
00:07:25Who investigates in the pre-procedural phase is the judicial
00:07:28police, with the Public Prosecutor's Office as the prosecuting
00:07:33right to propose criminal action, also seeking
00:07:36elements of conviction.
00:07:40Article 3A of the
00:07:42Code of Criminal Procedure leaves no doubt in this regard, there
00:07:46it is established, here comes the 3A of the CPP.
00:07:50I continue reading the PGER's statement:
00:07:53it is not up to the judge to accuse, much less is it up to the
00:07:56judge to conduct pre-procedural investigations.
00:08:00He is not allowed to use the judicial police as his
00:08:03long arm for activities that were
00:08:06not assigned to him. Paradigmatic decisions
00:08:10of the Federal Supreme Court leave
00:08:12no doubt that the assumption by the judge of
00:08:16functions other than his own is a cause of nullity
00:08:20that affects the results of the wrongly
00:08:23initiated action. From this jurisprudence, these
00:08:26precedents that cite and follow many others
00:08:28come here
00:08:32the citation of precedents. I continue with the
00:08:35PGR's statement, the order for
00:08:38investigation given by the reporting minister and the elements
00:08:42it contains suffer, therefore, from double
00:08:45nullity. The order given to the police authority to
00:08:49investigate specific people, without
00:08:51a request from the public prosecutor's office and without the initiative of the
00:08:55police authority, is null, for exceeding the
00:08:58limits of the magistrate's competence in the
00:09:01pre-procedural phase. For another reason, it is
00:09:04null, even if accidentally some
00:09:07indication of what the rapporteur understood
00:09:10to be an irregularity of penal
00:09:14interest was found, it would not be up to him to delve
00:09:17deeper into the research on his colleague, that is to say,
00:09:20it would not be up to him to order a more
00:09:23detailed investigation of references to his colleague,
00:09:27he should rather, believing there was something that deserved to be
00:09:31investigated, address the president of the
00:09:34court so that the plenary could evaluate the correctness of his
00:09:38impression, agreeing or disagreeing with the
00:09:40investigation,
00:09:43being null the order and its result, it is
00:09:47up to the rapporteur to recognize it and dismiss the petition,
00:09:50close quotes from the citation of the PGR's
00:09:53opinion and I continue the report.
00:09:56I record at this point in the report
00:09:59that, according to the chronology of the records, regarding the
00:10:03precautionary removal of Andrei Augusto Passos
00:10:06Rodrigues, from the position of Director
00:10:09General of the Federal Police, the matter is
00:10:13inscribed in the preliminary suspension 1946
00:10:16of the decision rendered in the scope of PET
00:10:1916704, moreover, other
00:10:23matters related to facts and circumstances
00:10:26related to Minister André Mendonça are in PET
00:10:2916704 mentioned above, with these
00:10:33records made, I continue. On September 12,
00:10:372026, Minister André Mendonça issued
00:10:40the following order, I open
00:10:43quotes: given the identification of elements
00:10:46capable of justifying that autonomous treatment be given to the
00:10:50information from the judicial police, number such,
00:10:54reproduced here, forwarded by the
00:10:56police authority, originally
00:11:00contained in documents 5451 to
00:11:02547, 541 to
00:11:05547 of PET
00:11:0715556, I ordered the judicial
00:11:10secretariat to proceed with its dismemberment,
00:11:14together with the respective ordering dispatch
00:11:17and documents contained in the documents
00:11:20cited here. two, as can
00:11:24be seen? it is verified from the content of the judicial police information
00:11:28number cited here, the pointed
00:11:31need to confer autonomous treatment to the
00:11:34said document and its attachments results from the
00:11:38identification by the said information of a person
00:11:42who attracts the incidence of article 5, item 1
00:11:46of the internal regulations of the Federal Supreme Court.
00:11:49Three. Therefore, as can be verified
00:11:53from the dispatch that terminated its institution,
00:11:56the present PET 16662 was created to
00:12:00enable that, from autonomous treatment,
00:12:04the information in question could be appreciated by the
00:12:07plenary of the Federal Supreme Court, in faithful
00:12:11compliance with the provisions of article 5, item one of the
00:12:14internal regulations of the Supreme Court, fully
00:12:18consistent also with article 33, sole paragraph of the
00:12:22Loman, so much so that on September 6,
00:12:252026, I released the case for judgment by the
00:12:28court's highest collegiate body.
00:12:31Four, the rapporteur then continues. On the other hand, in
00:12:35PET 16704,
00:12:38on September 9, 2026, a
00:12:41decision was issued by the President Minister which, in
00:12:45the relevant part, determined the following: open
00:12:48quotes, item four, the suspension of
00:12:51any and all proceedings that deal with initial
00:12:55investigation against members of this Federal Supreme
00:12:58Court, which must be preliminarily forwarded
00:13:02to this presidency, close quotes from the citation of item
00:13:06four that is cited in the
00:13:08dispatch of the then reporting minister that I am still
00:13:11reading, item five of the dispatch,
00:13:16the said determination, considering
00:13:19that, as previously demonstrated, this
00:13:22specific PET 16662 was
00:13:25instituted for the adoption of the procedural rite
00:13:29imposed by the incidence of article 5, item one of the
00:13:32internal regulations of the Supreme Court, forward
00:13:35these records to the presidency, publish,
00:13:39close quotes, that was the citation, I continue in
00:13:42the report: on the same date,
00:13:46certificate was drawn up, attesting to the
00:13:49replacement of the rapporteur of the case to the
00:13:52presidency. On September 14, Minister Alexandre
00:13:56Moraes presented a statement
00:13:59in Edoc 152 in PET
00:14:0116704
00:14:03about the documents collected so far, he alleged in
00:14:07summary that the police report
00:14:10is, I open quotes, an attempt to objectively
00:14:14hold responsible for writings by
00:14:16a third party, found in a notepad on a cell phone
00:14:20seized in a successful police
00:14:23operation, and
00:14:25that the arrest of the investigated occurred, again, in
00:14:28quotes, at the moment of embarkation at the Customs of the largest
00:14:32airport in the country, close quotes, and still in
00:14:35quotes, with a true passport, the
00:14:38investigated, therefore, carrying his own
00:14:42cell phone, close quotes, hence, in his
00:14:45understanding, I open quotes, it is not logical, reasonable, and
00:14:49plausible to assume leakage or
00:14:52favoritism. Minister Alexandre also
00:14:55alleged, one, that there was nullity in the institution
00:14:59ex officio of the incident in the direction of the
00:15:03investigation against him, as a minister of
00:15:05the court, two, that the report is inadmissible
00:15:09as evidence, and three, that there is no criminal
00:15:12offense. Regarding the nullities, he argued that
00:15:15any investigation requires provocation from the
00:15:19PGR and authorization from the plenary, which did
00:15:22not occur in this case. In addition
00:15:25to the decision that ordered the preparation of the report having been
00:15:29ex officio, there was a determination for the federal
00:15:32police to hand over the records without going through the
00:15:36Attorney General's Office.
00:15:38Minister Alexandre, in that statement, also pointed
00:15:41out that the then reporting minister André
00:15:44Mendonça had prior knowledge that the
00:15:47target of the identification would be Minister Alexandre, because in the
00:15:51pieces of PET 15625,
00:15:54there is a file titled open quotes
00:15:57moraes.pdf,
00:15:59close quotes, which, for another reason, would constitute
00:16:02illegality, since the Loman command was
00:16:06not complied with. Still regarding nullity, Minister
00:16:09Alexandre Moraes raises that the then rapporteur, open quotes,
00:16:13has an interest in the initiation of a formal investigation, close
00:16:17quotes, because he requested, open quotes, more
00:16:20than once, that the investigation team forward
00:16:23some evidence in this regard, close
00:16:27quotes, there would still be, according
00:16:29to Minister Alexandre Moraes, open quotes, growing
00:16:33indications of bias in the conduct
00:16:36of the... Judicial vision, manifested in
00:16:40thematic direction of progressive intensity,
00:16:44close quotes, such as the participation in collaboration
00:16:47negotiations, selection of targets, asymmetry by
00:16:51orientation within the political spectrum, threats to the
00:16:55Director-General of the Federal Police and the Attorney-General of the
00:16:59Republic, the leakage of information the week
00:17:02before September 7th.
00:17:06I continue. Regarding the police report, Minister
00:17:09Alexandre argues that, open quotes, it is not an expert
00:17:12report, it did not analyze the raw
00:17:16data, it completely broke the chain of custody, close quotes.
00:17:20In addition, the
00:17:23file metadata indicates that it was open
00:17:26quotes, opened and finalized on the same
00:17:30day on the PF computer, that is,
00:17:33it was completely inserted, close quotes, the
00:17:37minister raises suspicion of strange
00:17:41participation, outside the federal police, in the preparation
00:17:44of the document, I open quotes, external
00:17:48agents due to the form of production, probably
00:17:51foreigners, close quotes, which, in his
00:17:54understanding, would denote, I open quotes, an attempt to
00:17:57foreign interference in Brazilian elections, close
00:18:01quotes, he also states that there was, I open
00:18:04quotes, early access to the
00:18:07raw collection of extractions, close
00:18:10quotes, by the cabinet of the then
00:18:13rapporteur, which for another reason would point to
00:18:17his action,
00:18:19between quotes, of the judge as an investigator,
00:18:23he also alleges, and I quote between quotes, that there is not a
00:18:26single raw data in the document, there are
00:18:30images of excerpts cut by whoever cut them,
00:18:33captioned by whoever cut them, and that of the
00:18:3742 notes presented,
00:18:4047 were not found in any conversation
00:18:43and that 90.4%
00:18:47of the set is inference, in the
00:18:50remaining five, I open quotes,
00:18:52it is presumed, without any effective proof, close
00:18:56quotes, he also pointed out that there was a violation of the
00:18:59inviolability of the legal profession, and that
00:19:02the Barce de Moraes office had
00:19:05only one, not
00:19:07two contracts with Banco Master, as for the
00:19:11dialogues, he stated that they were my messages that never
00:19:14existed, fictitious dialogues, close
00:19:18quotes. Minister Alexandre Moraes also points out that
00:19:21there is no proof in the document of the existence of a criminal
00:19:25offense. There is no contact with the authority, neither
00:19:29with the Attorney-General of the Republic, nor with the Director of the Federal
00:19:32Police. He asserted, between quotes, that he never
00:19:36judged with... any process of Banco Master or
00:19:39Daniel Vorcaro, this between quotes, and
00:19:43that, I open quotes again, the farce of
00:19:46the existence of leaks that would have
00:19:50harmed the operation was created, what was the
00:19:52leak, no leak, no
00:19:55damage, between quotes, he attributed the
00:19:58motivation for the piece to the revenge of people
00:20:02allied to the agents who were convicted of
00:20:05attempted coup. stating that, I open
00:20:09quotes, the attempted coup did not end on January
00:20:138, 2023, it simply changed its
00:20:16modus operandi, close quotes, for these
00:20:20reasons, he requested the immediate approval of the
00:20:23opinion of the Attorney General's Office,
00:20:26nullity of the IPJ, the judicial
00:20:29police information, produced by the Federal Police,
00:20:32the extinction of PET 16662,
00:20:36also. information in that PET
00:20:4016704,
00:20:42the Director General of the Federal Police and Minister André
00:20:46Mendonça. The content of these statements
00:20:50will be specifically examined when examining PET
00:20:5316 704.
00:20:56At this point, and to conclude the
00:20:58report,
00:21:01what, in my opinion, is in the
00:21:04delimitation of the object.
00:21:06I understand, subject to a better judgment and different understandings
00:21:09of meaning, that what is submitted to the
00:21:13plenary is not at this moment any
00:21:16judgment about possible criminal responsibility of
00:21:20the investigated authority,
00:21:22nor anticipation of conclusion about the evidentiary
00:21:25value of the collected elements, even
00:21:29because any judgment of this nature is the responsibility of the
00:21:33public prosecutor's office as the exclusive holder of public
00:21:36criminal action, under the terms of item one of article
00:21:40129 of the Constitution of the Republic. In my
00:21:43opinion, the object of this judgment is circumscribed
00:21:46to what is contained in PET 16. The idea
00:21:50of saying, that is to say, precisely the
00:21:54authorization not for the continuation of an investigation in
00:21:57the course of which there would theoretically be an indication of the
00:22:01practice of a crime by a magistrate, together with the issue of
00:22:04nullity raised by the
00:22:07Attorney General's
00:22:09Office, ladies and gentlemen ministers, this is the
00:22:12report. In this
00:22:15minute, Minister Flávio, and at this
00:22:18stage, the presidency proposes to
00:22:21Your Excellencies that if any minister has any
00:22:25impediment or suspicion
00:22:29to participate in the judgment, that the
00:22:31colleague, if he wishes, feels free to
00:22:35decline, because in this way we already
00:22:38have an outcome for this
00:22:42session.
00:22:45Mr. President, first I greet Minister Cássio, you have the floor, I greet Your
00:22:48Excellency. "In your person, I greet all
00:22:52members of the court, the Attorney
00:22:55General, servers, female servers,
00:22:58lawyers, the president of the Brazilian Bar Association present here,
00:23:02I also take this opportunity to greet all lawyers in your
00:23:04person. I would like to make
00:23:08a clarification and a record in relation to
00:23:12what Your Excellency commented, I have never used
00:23:15the Supreme Court's platform to make clarifications, but I think today is
00:23:19the day. The
00:23:21gravity of the circumstances
00:23:24deserves it, in relation to messages circulating from
00:23:28yesterday, from today, and that will
00:23:31always surround authorities in Brazil,
00:23:34I have never judged
00:23:38any process related to Master,
00:23:42my son has never provided any service to the bank and has never been remunerated
00:23:46by the bank.
00:23:52And it is a fact, because banking secrecy has already been
00:23:55breached, there is no point in speculating otherwise,
00:23:59because if the secrecy has already been breached, against facts, there
00:24:03are no arguments.
00:24:05As for that, I have absolute
00:24:08exemption, my exemption is based and absolutely
00:24:12proven in the votes I cast. If I felt
00:24:16uncomfortable
00:24:19or had voted in some way,
00:24:22I would never have voted for the confirmation
00:24:26of the arrest of Daniel Vorcaro, his father, and other
00:24:29people involved, but we know that impediments
00:24:32and suspicions do not arise only from
00:24:36culpability, they are also the result
00:24:39of intrinsic and extrinsic factors,
00:24:42as day
00:24:43used to say.
00:24:50We know that in relation to this, all of us, not only ministers
00:24:54of the Supreme Court, but ministers of State, magistrates
00:24:57of all spheres of the judiciary in
00:25:00Brazil, will always suffer
00:25:03some type of influence from people who try
00:25:07to get close, sometimes with an immediate objective, sometimes
00:25:11with no objective at all,
00:25:14just by being close to courts, whether
00:25:18judicial courts, or
00:25:20legislative courts, or executive power courts, this
00:25:24is a reality and none of us
00:25:27will be free from that as long as we raise
00:25:30our robes, it
00:25:33is good to record that regarding the case, I never exchanged
00:25:37any messages, there is no record of any messages
00:25:40from me with Daniel Vorcaro, this is already
00:25:43clarifying some
00:25:44points:
00:25:50However, Mr. President,
00:25:53I understand that I have a mission that was conferred upon me
00:25:57by the Brazilian Constitution, and until
00:26:00now, it is being safeguarded by God. And
00:26:03for me, with absolutely no
00:26:06diminution of the relevance of this judgment or even the master
00:26:10case, I understand that this mission is more
00:26:13important than ensuring balance in the
00:26:172026 elections and that we are only 19
00:26:20days away. I have made a huge effort and
00:26:24this is
00:26:27easily verifiable, the Superior Electoral Court has
00:26:30maintained itself, despite another criticism, but I am
00:26:34convinced of this, it has remained absolutely
00:26:36equidistant from party preferences, from
00:26:40members of advisors, from all those who run the electoral
00:26:43process. I may even be wrong, but
00:26:47I believe that the TSE is doing very
00:26:50well. I have no doubt
00:26:52that,
00:26:57that, despite the debates,
00:27:01they will flow. That this
00:27:04judgment may also impact the
00:27:07political electoral scenario. So, in my capacity as president of the
00:27:11TSE, I do not
00:27:14feel comfortable participating in this judgment and
00:27:18I declare my recusal.
00:27:21Thank you very much, Your Excellency, Minister Cássio, therefore, the
00:27:24secretariat will note the
00:27:26declaration of recusal by Your Excellency.
00:27:30Minister Diaz Toffle asks for the floor. Good morning, Mr. President,
00:27:33greeting Your Excellency, eminent dean, Minister Carmen
00:27:36Lúcia, all eminent colleagues, Prosecutor General of the
00:27:39Republic, lawyers, and all
00:27:43who accompany
00:27:46us, and civil servants. Mr.
00:27:49President, it is well known to all that on
00:27:52February 9, 2026, I was still
00:27:56under the role of rapporteur and under my
00:27:59rapporteurship, the case of... Banco
00:28:02Master
00:28:05and, it must be said, again, without ever having received any
00:28:08documentation from the Federal Police until that
00:28:11moment, none. I ordered
00:28:14all the diligences that were requested by the
00:28:18Attorney General of the
00:28:20Republic, and also those that came from the
00:28:24Federal Police, but whose materials were never
00:28:27in my custody in my
00:28:30office. On February 9, 2026, a
00:28:34request was submitted to Your Excellency after the protocol in the
00:28:38Supreme Court, signed
00:28:40by
00:28:44members
00:28:46of the
00:28:48CINC making two requests, one for
00:28:52investigation under Article 33, sole paragraph,
00:28:56and another for an argument of
00:28:59suspension
00:29:01for my non- involvement in the
00:29:05rapporteurship.
00:29:07They presented
00:29:09a report and Your Excellency
00:29:13told me that you had read it entirely, in full,
00:29:16and decided that there was no indication
00:29:20of any illicit material
00:29:23from the point of view, but that it would be registered as
00:29:27an argument of suspension for analysis by the
00:29:30plenary. So he did, it received the
00:29:33number AS244 for suspension
00:29:36argument.
00:29:39Your Excellency gave the regimental period for my
00:29:42manifestation. I responded in full
00:29:46to all the questions
00:29:50raised in that report, which was
00:29:53made absolutely outside of any type of
00:29:57investigation or authorization from the presidency
00:30:01of this Court, or from the plenary
00:30:04of this Court.
00:30:06And
00:30:09this defense, both the defense and the report, I asked
00:30:12Your Excellency, I myself asked Your Excellency to
00:30:16forward it to all eminent
00:30:17colleagues. All eminent colleagues had
00:30:21access to the full report, to the full
00:30:25of my defense, and I had the
00:30:28opportunity to manifest myself in
00:30:31a meeting with all colleagues present
00:30:34in Your Excellency's office on that date,
00:30:38Mr. President, at the suggestion of
00:30:41Minister Flávio Dino, after the manifestation of all colleagues,
00:30:45mostly, the great majority, understanding that there was no
00:30:48existence of anything that
00:30:52would lead to my suspicion, but
00:30:55accepting the suggestion made by the eminent Minister Flávio Dino
00:30:59that...
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