Report used by Moraes should never have left federal police, delegates’ chief says

A Federal Police intelligence report used in the Supreme Court’s Fake News inquiry should never have left the police, according to Edvandir Felix de Paiva, president of the National Association of Federal Police Delegates.

“The document could not in any way circulate outside the police, because they are internal impressions,” Paiva told Estadão. “There are situations involving highly subjective analysis that may be just someone’s opinion.” He said the document might exist for internal handling, but that outsiders knowing about it and its use in a criminal proceeding were “totally irregular.”

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The document could not in any way circulate outside the police, because they are internal impressions.

Federal Police Director-General Andrei Rodrigues delivered the report to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes this week after receiving an order from the justice. Estadão reported that the document itself says it has no evidentiary value and cannot support an accusation. Moraes nevertheless used it in the Fake News inquiry to accuse Justice André Mendonça of abuse of authority.

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There are situations involving highly subjective analysis that may be just someone’s opinion.

The dispute began after Mendonça requested a Federal Police report containing conversations between Moraes and banker Daniel Vorcaro. In those messages, revealed by Estadão, Vorcaro asked Moraes for guidance on whether he should flee the country while under investigation.

Paiva said the report’s disclosure caused “great surprise” among Federal Police delegates, some of whom even questioned whether it had been produced inside the force. He said intelligence doctrine prohibits attaching this type of document to police investigations and called for scrutiny of how a Supreme Court justice knew the documents were being produced. He added that he could not recall another case in which an intelligence report had reached the Supreme Court or another court.

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The report’s disclosure caused a great surprise among the delegates.