Brazil court crisis deepens as justice orders federal police chief suspended
Mendonca said six illegal intelligence reports justified the removal, escalating a clash with Justice Alexandre de Moraes over alleged misconduct.
- 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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The decision exposes a deep crisis in the highest court and involves the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the turbulence facing the October national elections
Less than a month from the Brazilian presidential elections, an unprecedented institutional crisis is shaking the country. On Tuesday, a judge of the Supreme Court ordered the suspension of the head of the Federal Police. ...
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Brazil Supreme Court removes federal police chief, Lula appeals the decision
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice André Mendonca has removed the head of the federal police and the intelligence chief from their posts.
The crisis began last week when a police report was published revealing messages sent by banker Daniel Vorcaro to a number attributed to Judge Alexandre de Moraes, in which he asked for help in halting the investigation that shortly thereafter led to his arrest on suspicion of fraud. That report was released by Judge André Mendonça, who is in charge of the case of the now-defunct Banco Master, which Vorcaro owned. In Tuesday's latest developme…
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