By Ricardo Brito and Lisandra Paraguassu
BRASILIA (Reuters) – The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes on Friday ordered the full suspension of the Telegram app in Brazil, to be implemented within 24 hours, at the request of the Federal Police.
In his order, the minister stated that the decision is based on the app’s failure to comply with the determination to block and demonetize accounts linked to Bolsonarista blogger Allan dos Santos, who is now considered a fugitive from justice in the investigation that investigates digital militias and production of fake news.
“With regard to the investigation related to Allan Lopes dos Santos, the police authority argues that the investigated, after blocking his profiles on other platforms, ‘migrated his activities to Telegram, repeating the way of acting already described in the case file. , including seeking to obtain remuneration through the receipt of digital currencies (bitcoin), whose donations are requested through disclosure on their profile on Telegram’, circumventing the content of previous court decisions, which sought to interrupt the criminal conduct investigated” , says the decision of Moraes.
According to the minister’s order, the PF stressed that it tried to contact Telegram “through the available channels”, in order to forward court orders to block profiles and other data, “not getting a response on any of the occasions”.
“The disregard for justice and the total lack of cooperation between the Telegram platform and the judicial bodies is a fact that disrespects the sovereignty of several countries, not being a circumstance that occurs exclusively in Brazil and has allowed this platform to be repeatedly used for the practice of numerous criminal offenses”, added the magistrate.
In the decision, Moraes asks the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to take measures for the suspension and for telephone operators to insert blocks to prevent the use of Telegram, an application widely used by President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters.
In addition, the decision calls for the app to be withdrawn from Google and Apple’s online stores.
In a note, Anatel informed that it was officiated by the STF and “provided the immediate forwarding of the judicial decision to the entities operating in the regulated sector that are relevant to the judicial determination”.
Operators Claro, TIM and Vivo did not comment on the matter and forwarded questions on the subject to the entity that represents the sector, Conexis, which did not return contact from Reuters. Sought after, Google and Apple also did not comment immediately.
ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Telegram is the only one among the main messaging and social networking apps that has not yet closed a collaboration with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) with a view to this year’s election campaign.
Last week, the president of the TSE, Minister Edson Fachin, sent a new letter to the executive director of Telegram, Pavel Durov, for the application’s representative to collaborate with the program created by the electoral court that aims to reduce the harmful effects of the news. false to the image of the Electoral Justice and the credibility of the Brazilian elections.
The request was forwarded to a law firm that represents the application in the country, located in Rio de Janeiro, by email and also by the Post Office.
Until that moment, 72 entities –such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram– had already joined the initiative.
In mid-December, the then president of the TSE, Luís Roberto Barroso, had sent the first letter to Pavel Durov in which he asked for a meeting to discuss possible forms of collaboration.
(Additional reporting by Alberto Alerigi Jr., in São Paulo)
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