The US government announced sanctions against the judge of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil Alexandre de Moraes. The decision arises after the escalation of the crisis among the US president Donald Trump and the management of Lula da Silva.
The report of US Treasury Department Includes the name of default and personal information (date of birth, passport, identity). The sanctions would be through the Magnitsky Law, through a Executive decree, without the need for judicial conviction.
USA seeks to sanction Brazil: what is the Magnitsky law
The main sanction provided by law is Freezing assets in the US, which includes bank accounts, financial and real estate investments. The sanctioned also have prohibited to make transactions that pass through the US banking system.
In practice, this entails freezing of dollarized assets Even outside the US jurisdiction, in addition to the blockade of international credit cards issued by companies based in the North American country.
Promulgated by Obama management in 2012, the law was originally created to punish those responsible for the murder of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, opponent of Vladimir Putin, dead in a prison in Moscow in 2009.
But in 2016 its scope was extended to allow the sanction “to people around the world who have violated human rights or are accused of corruption,” said O Globo.
The law includes the prohibition of entry to the US and the suspension of accounts on social media platforms with said headquarters as Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube and Google Pay.
The application of the norm for Moraes is “controversial” for experts, since it does not have accusations for corruption and its judicial decisions are ratified by the Supreme Court in a democratic regime.
Brazil: The Supreme Court ruled out the preventive detention for Jair Bolsonaro
Recently, the ex -president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro received an electronic ankle and the prohibition of using social networks. A final de Moraes ruling ruled out the preventive detention for the former leader.
However, the court warned that It will apply it “immediate” if it violates judicial orders. The son of Bolsonaro, Eduardo, spread in his networks images of his father talking with journalists at the headquarters of the Legislative Power and first exhibiting his ankle, which he described as a “maximum humiliation.”
Source: Ambito
