• The mayor of the State of #SaoPaulo, #JoaoDoria, wants luxury cars seized by the police to be used as police cars. Some people have expressed disapproval for the idea of stopping selling luxury cars in auctions and start spending money on maintaining them as police cars. A regular luxury car, which, on average, has a lower mileage, is already very expensive to maintain, and there is also the higher expense to make any adaptations to the car, since it will be done on demand.
• The mayor of #Florianopolis, #GeanLoureiro, decided to have spend some vacation time in #Cancun, and while he was there he decided to restart a #lockdown period, and that's when his trip became big news. After getting back, he apologized for the trip. He wrote he needed some vacation and he thought having online meetings would be enough to make up his physical absence. He said he couldn't get back sooner because he had to wait for a COVID test result in order to fly and because he had a hard time to reschedule his flight for sooner.
• Despite the fact that the #pandemic resulted in a lot of businesses losing revenue or closing, thus cities and states seeing their tax revenue go down dangerously, these ones finished 2020 with 94% more money on average. The only explanation for this, so far, is the billions and billions in relief money they have received from the gov't. What could be behind this lack of expenses in such a time so many people are in need of material and financial support while they are, on average, generating less money in taxes? #corruption #covid
• The 46th Independent Military Police Campaign of the State of #Bahia posted a photo of a bag with 5 long neck bottles of beer inside, saying it was seized from a citizen who was seen outside during the period of #curfew and taken to the police station. Many people expressed outrage, since Bahia has one of the highest (real) crime rates in Brazil and they found disgusting the fact that a highly trained police was proud enough of such an arrest to show it on Instagram.
• The Medicine Regional Council of [the State of] #DistritoFederal (#CRM) published a one-page letter titled “PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT AGAINST THE #LOCKDOWN,” and the first paragraph starts with, “THE CRM-DF IS AGAINST THE LOCKDOWN AS AN EFFECTIVE MEASURE FOR THE CONTROL OF SARS-COV-2.” #covid

One of the Brazilian #SupremeCourt's judge-ministers let a high profile drug dealer leave prison and now police doesn't know where he is. Among the crimes #AndrédoRap had committed was the delivery of tons of cocaine to #Europe.

After the House of Representatives dismantled an anticorruption package and voted for it, criminals no longer need to stay in jail before their case is judged by the fourth and last court; the highest, the Supreme Court. Until then, a criminal can remain free, or go back into the streets.

But, in order for the criminal to remain free or go back into the streets, a letter of justification of incarceration has to be sent for the next higher court judge to sign, and this letter has the validity of three months, otherwise the criminal can't leave or remain free. This signature can take time, but if the criminal gets the money to pay for an attorney to rush their case into a superior court, problem solved.

In this drug dealer's case, the justification letter allegedly was not sent, and his attorney wrote a habeas corpus, to which the judge-minister accepted, even though he knew he was dealing with such a high profile criminal.

During an interview to #CNNBrasil on the radio, the judge-minister, #MarcoAurélio, abruptly ended the interview when the interviewer asked him to comment on the fact that the law-firm that wrote the habeas corpus belongs to one of his ex-employees in the Supreme Court.

#brazil #stf #drug #drugdealing #drugdealer #corruption #impunity #cnn