Brazil court crisis deepens as justice orders federal police chief suspended
The ruling deepens an unprecedented court feud and puts two justices under possible investigation over alleged misuse of federal police intelligence, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Justice Andre Mendonca ordered the preventive suspension of Federal Police Director-General Andrei Rodrigues and intelligence chief Leandro Almada, citing the "exceptional gravity and illegality" of intelligence reports publicized by Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
- The ruling intensifies an open confrontation between Mendonca, a nominee of former President Jair Bolsonaro, and Moraes, who pursued Bolsonaro over a 2023 coup plot and won his conviction in 2025.
- Last week, Mendonca disclosed a report raising questions about alleged contacts between Moraes and a banker accused of leading a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, prompting calls for an investigation into the justice.
- Moraes responded by seeking an investigation into Mendonca for alleged abuse of authority, citing federal police reports that Mendonca has challenged as illegal.
- Brazil's Supreme Court is now weighing whether to investigate two of its own members amid competing allegations of misconduct, marking a dramatic chapter in an unprecedented institutional conflict.
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André Mendonça, judge of the STF, pushed the leaders of the PF away for "systematic monitoring" in reports sent to Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who asked Mendonça to investigate. Internal war continues.
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