Brazil’s top court is asked to remove STJ minister and halt his pay

Brazil’s top court is asked to remove STJ minister and halt his pay
Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office (AGU) has asked the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to formally remove Superior Court of Justice (STJ) Minister Marco Aurélio Buzzi from office and immediately suspend his remuneration while the case is decided.

The Brazil Right report provides the fuller account, describing the request as the legal follow-through to an STJ plenary decision in early August. The court found disciplinary violations and, by an absolute majority, imposed loss of office and removal from duties — a sanction described as the first use of the newer maximum penalty for serious misconduct by an STJ minister.

Both the Brazil Right and Brazil Left items characterize the AGU filing in the same basic terms: a request to the STF for Buzzi’s dismissal. The difference is one of detail rather than interpretation. The Left-side entry offers no accompanying text, while the Right-side report emphasizes that Buzzi remained on salary after being removed from his functions and says the AGU is seeking an urgent order to stop those payments.

According to that report, the disciplinary case concerns allegations of sexual harassment, sexual misconduct and insult. It says Buzzi had been barred from the STJ’s premises after the proceedings began in February, though his pay continued. The AGU also asked for measures to safeguard the complainants’ data, privacy and dignity during the STF proceedings.

The report says Brazil’s Prosecutor-General’s Office found the complainants’ accounts “firm, coherent and convergent” with evidence gathered in the case. It attributes allegations involving non-consensual physical contact and inappropriate conduct to the disciplinary record. The supplied material does not include a response from Buzzi or his representatives.

The immediate dispute, therefore, is not only over the ultimate loss of office but over whether a judge already removed from judicial duties should continue receiving public pay pending the STF’s decision.

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