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Zanin seeks accountability after Deltan publishes minister’s confidential banking data

From Estadão · () Portuguese

Translated from Portuguese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Justice Cristiano Zanin asked Paraná’s electoral court to investigate and hold responsible parties accountable after confidential documents about him became public.
  • Deltan Dallagnol’s defense said it filed complete copies of disciplinary proceedings to respond to challenges to his candidacy, without intending to expose Zanin’s data.
  • The electoral court restricted access to the documents and referred the incident to prosecutors.

Supreme Federal Court Justice Cristiano Zanin has asked Paraná’s electoral authorities to hold those responsible accountable after confidential tax and banking information about him became public in Deltan Dallagnol’s Senate candidacy case.

Dallagnol, a former Lava Jato prosecutor from the Novo party, submitted the documents as part of his defence against challenges to his candidacy. The material included confidential information belonging to Zanin and became publicly accessible through the electoral court’s system. The case was first reported by the Metrópoles news portal.

remedy this illegality

· Cristiano ZaninZanin used the phrase in a request to Paraná’s electoral court after his confidential data became public.

The documents originally formed part of a disciplinary case against Dallagnol before Brazil’s National Council of the Public Prosecution Service. The data had been extracted by the Lava Jato operation in Rio de Janeiro in 2019 and later annulled by the courts. At the time, Zanin represented President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, then a target of the investigation.

those involved to be held accountable, including in the criminal sphere

· Cristiano ZaninThe justice called for responsibility for the disclosure of his confidential information.

In a letter sent on Saturday to Paraná Regional Electoral Court President Luciano Carrasco Falavinha Souza, Zanin called for measures to “remedy this illegality” and for “those involved to be held accountable, including in the criminal sphere.” Judge Vanessa Jamus Marchi, who is handling Dallagnol’s candidacy case, subsequently ordered the documents sealed and limited access to the parties.

Dallagnol’s lawyers said they had submitted copies of the council proceedings to fully answer the challenges to his candidacy. They said a disciplinary complaint filed by Zanin against Dallagnol and other prosecutors ran to thousands of pages, including the confidential data. The Paraná electoral court said the case contained more than 5,000 pages and that it had referred the leak to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for appropriate action.

The candidate’s defence never intended to expose the data of the then-lawyer, but rather to fully exercise the political right to stand for election, clearly demonstrating his eligibility

· Deltan Dallagnol’s defenceThe lawyers explained why they filed the documents in the candidacy case.
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Originally published by Estadão 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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