STF President Edson Fachin rejected a Senate CPI of Organized Crime's appeal against Justice Gilmar Mendes' earlier suspension of secrecy breaks on Maridt Participações, a firm linked to Justice Dias Toffoli. This keeps the company's banking, fiscal, phone, and telematic records sealed amid probes into financial irregularities and possible organized crime ties.
On March 28, 2026, STF President Justice Edson Fachin denied the Senate CPI of Organized Crime's request to overturn Justice Gilmar Mendes' February 27 ruling. Mendes had suspended, via habeas corpus in an unrelated archived case, the CPI's order to access Maridt's banking, fiscal, phone, and telematic records—describing it as lacking foundation.
Maridt, where Toffoli's brothers are partners, sold stakes in the Tayayá resort: half in 2021 to the Arleen fund (linked to Banco Master, controlled by investigated figure Daniel Vorcaro), and the rest in 2025 to Paulo Humberto Barbosa, a JBS lawyer. The CPI alleges financial irregularities and money laundering ties.
Fachin argued the STF presidency lacks authority to review another justice's decision, citing no hierarchy among ministers: "Não se admite, como regra, pedido de suspensão de decisão proferida por Ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal." He forwarded a separate CPI petition to Mendes.
CPI President Senator Fabiano Contarato (PT-ES) decried the decision as limiting investigations and CPI prerogatives, with plans to appeal to the full STF bench. In February, Federal Police submitted a 200-page report to Fachin on Toffoli-Vorcaro links but found no basis to investigate Toffoli, who denies impropriety and claims all declared to authorities.
