Fachin orders closure of Fake News Inquiry after 7 years
The closure is the outcome of a move initiated in September when the STF president removed Moraes from the rapporteurship.
TL;DR
- The 'Fake News Inquiry,' opened in March 2019, has been closed by STF President Edson Fachin.
- The decision follows a request from the Prosecutor General, Paulo Gonet, who deemed the inquiry's object exhausted.
- Derivative investigations and processes stemming from the inquiry will continue but will be handled individually.
- Fachin stated that investigations need a time limit and that institutional protection must adhere to constitutional guarantees.
- Decisions already made, convictions, acquittals, agreements, and accepted indictments in separate processes remain valid.
- Sensitive personal, banking, fiscal, and business information gathered will be separated before the inquiry's records are unsealed.
- The closure follows an internal movement initiated in September when Fachin took over the inquiry's leadership from Alexandre de Moraes.
- The inquiry originally aimed to investigate fraudulent news, slander, and threats against STF ministers and the institution.