Deltan files Zanin's confidential tax data with electoral court, prompting minister to seek accountability
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- Former prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol submitted electoral-court documents containing confidential tax and banking data about Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin and his wife.
- Zanin asked the authorities to take action, and the Paraná regional electoral court sealed the documents and gave Dallagnol 24 hours to explain.
- The case comes as political parties challenge Dallagnol's Senate candidacy, arguing that he is ineligible for eight years; the challenge remains undecided.
Former prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol included confidential tax and banking records belonging to Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin and Zanin's wife, Valeska, in documents filed with Brazil's electoral court.
Among these proceedings was the disciplinary complaint filed by Zanin against Deltan and other prosecutors, which ran to thousands of pages. The tax and banking data of the lawyer at the time were included as part of that complaint.
The records appeared in copies of proceedings from the National Council of Public Prosecution that Dallagnol submitted as part of his candidacy registration. The files contained Federal Revenue documents showing Zanin's income and bank transactions. The information had originally been obtained after a 2019 decision by federal judge Marcelo Bretas to lift Zanin's confidentiality during Operation Car Wash, when Zanin was a lawyer for Fecomércio-RJ, which faced accusations of diverting public funds.
The Supreme Court later annulled the decision and the documents obtained through it. Dallagnol said he submitted the proceedings to challenge requests seeking to block his Senate candidacy. His office said the records were filed in full "to avoid omitting any data or information" and to fully exercise his political right to run, while denying that he intended to expose the justice's data.
to avoid omitting any data or information
Zanin asked the electoral authorities to take steps toward holding those involved accountable, including criminal accountability. The president of the Paraná Regional Electoral Court then placed the documents under seal and Judge Luciano Carrasco Falavinha Souza gave Dallagnol 24 hours to explain. The material was no longer publicly accessible in the court systems, and the court said it had referred the incident to prosecutors.
to fully exercise the political right to run, demonstrating conclusively his eligibility
The court also said lawyers for the parties are responsible for assigning confidentiality when filing documents through the electronic judicial process. Dallagnol won a seat in Congress in 2022, but the Superior Electoral Court revoked his candidacy registration the following year. The court said he had left the federal prosecution service while disciplinary proceedings were still pending, in an attempt to avoid possible punishment. The current challenge to his candidacy has not been decided.
the necessary communications with a view to holding those involved accountable, including criminal accountability
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Originally published by Folha de S.Paulo in Portuguese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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