Public ethics and partiality in the fight against corruption: The Intercept Brasil vs. Operation Car Wash: Ética pública e parcialidade no combate à corrupção: o caso The Intercept Brasil vs. Operação Lava Jato

In June 2019, The Intercept Brasil started a series of reports exposing conversations in the digital application Telegram obtained by an anonymous source, involving members of Operation Car Wash, showing various attitudes and conversations with highly controversial content. These reports - which bec...

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Authors: Gabardo, Emerson, Lazzarotto , Gabriel Strapasson, Watzko, Nicholas Andrey Monteiro
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC-PR)
Repository:International Journal of Digital Law
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:journal.nuped.com.br:article/39
Online Access:https://journal.nuped.com.br/index.php/revista/article/view/gabardo2021
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Combate à corrupção
Operação Lava Jato
The Intercept Brasil
Hackeamento de mensagens
Ética pública
Fight against corruption
Operation Car Wash
Message hacking
Public ethics
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Summary:In June 2019, The Intercept Brasil started a series of reports exposing conversations in the digital application Telegram obtained by an anonymous source, involving members of Operation Car Wash, showing various attitudes and conversations with highly controversial content. These reports - which became popularly known as “Vaza Jato” - caused great repercussions in the legal, political, and media, as they rekindled the debate about the credibility and impartiality of Car Wash. The objective of this work is to analyze the content of the dialogues revealed by the journal, based on its presumption of veracity, in order to investigate whether the conduct of the members of the Operation could be classified as irregular or not. The methodology used for the elaboration of the research was the analytical-documental and theoretical-bibliographic. To do so, from the premises of the accusatory procedural system, the main dialogues revealed by The Intercept Brasil portal were analyzed, as well as a selection of the messages released by the STF as a result of “Operation Spoofing”.