Justice André Mendonça, of the Supreme Federal Court, determined the preventive removal of Andrei Rodrigues from the position of director-general of the Federal Police. The decision, comprising 33 pages, escalated a crisis that shakes the STF and opposes, on one side, Mendonça, and on the other, Justices Alexandre de Moraes,Flávio Dino and the Federal Police leadership.
To support his decision, Mendonça used precedents from Alexandre de Moraes, fromFlávio Dino and also from the STF's own plenary during the Lava-Jato operation era. These precedents were employed to justify the preventive removal of Andrei Rodrigues from the position.
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