13th Federal Court of Curitiba

According to Congresso em Foco, in a sentence of September 21, 2015 Judge Sergio Moro convicted Renato Duque to 20 years and 8 months for passive corruption, money laundering, and criminal association, and Pedro Barusco to 18 years and 4 months (with a plea agreement); the sentence identified at least R$36,346,200, US$956,045, and €765,802 in bribes linked to the Services Directorate.

Source: Lava Jato: Moro condena Duque a 28 anos de prisão; Vaccari pega 15 (título da página; o texto informa 20 anos e 8 meses para Duque) — Congresso em Foco, Sept. 21, 2015 · text of the report · open original ↗

On March 8, 2021, in HC 193.726, Justice Edson Fachin declared the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba to lack jurisdiction over Lula's criminal cases (the Guarujá triplex, the Atibaia ranch and the Lula Institute), annulled the court's decisions, including the convictions, and ordered the case files sent to the Federal Court of the Federal District, finding that the facts had no direct connection with the Petrobras scheme.

Source: Marcado para 14/4 julgamento de recursos da decisão que anulou condenações de Lula — Supreme Federal Court, Mar. 25, 2021 · body of the news item · open original ↗

On June 13, 2016, Teori Zavascki granted Rcl 23.457 in part: he recognized the violation of the STF's jurisdiction and set aside the 13th Court's decisions of March 16, 2016 (event 135) and March 17, 2016 (event 140) that lifted secrecy over the conversations; he recognized the nullity of the content of the conversations captured after the order to stop the interceptions; and ordered returned to the 13th Court the cases that did not involve authorities with special forum.

Source: Reclamação 23.457/PR — decisão do Min. Teori Zavascki (13/06/2016) — Supreme Federal Court, June 13, 2016 · pp. 20-22, item 15 · open original ↗

On October 1, 2018, six days before the first round, Moro lifted secrecy over Antonio Palocci's Cooperation Statement 1, filed in the Lava Jato criminal case in which Lula was a defendant (the apartment in São Bernardo do Campo and the Lula Institute lot).

Source: A 6 dias das eleições, Moro quebra sigilo de delação de Palocci — Exame (Estadão Conteúdo), Oct. 1, 2018 · body of the article · open original ↗

On March 15, 2019, in ADPF 568 (filed by the PGR; related cases ADPF 569, by PT and PDT, and Rcl 33.667, by the Chamber of Deputies), Alexandre de Moraes suspended the effects of the Agreement on the Assumption of Obligations between Petrobras and prosecutors of the MPF-PR and of the 13th Court decision that approved it, and froze the deposited amounts (US$682.5 million transferred by Petrobras to 'Brazilian authorities' under an agreement with the DOJ), citing the risk of diversion of public money and doubt about the creation of a private foundation to manage them.

Source: Ministro suspende eficácia de acordo firmado entre procuradores da República no Paraná e Petrobras — Supreme Federal Court, Mar. 15, 2019 · body of the news item · open original ↗

On March 8, 2021, Justice Edson Fachin granted a habeas corpus (HC 193.726) to declare that the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba lacked jurisdiction in the triplex, Atibaia ranch and Lula Institute cases, annulling the decision-making acts and sending the case files to the Federal Court of the Federal District.

Source: Fachin anula todas as condenações de Lula na Lava Jato — CartaCapital, Mar. 8, 2021 · Excerpts of the decision reproduced · open original ↗

On May 21, 2024, Dias Toffoli annulled the decisions of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba against Marcelo Odebrecht; on September 6, 2024 the STF Second Panel reviewed the decision and kept the Lava Jato cases against him.

Source: Marcelo Odebrecht (verbete da Wikipédia em português) — Portuguese-language Wikipedia, Oct. 24, 2026 · section Timeline · open original ↗

Moro was a federal judge from June 26, 1996 to November 19, 2018 (at the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba, which he took over in 2002 when it was the 2nd Court, his last post), an aide to Justice Rosa Weber at the STF in 2012, Minister of Justice and Public Security from January 1, 2019 to April 24, 2020 and senator for Paraná since February 1, 2023; he joined Podemos on November 10, 2021 and União Brasil in 2022.

Source: Sergio Moro (verbete da Wikipédia em português) — Portuguese-language Wikipedia, Oct. 24, 2026 · infobox and sections · open original ↗

Gabriela Hardt has been a federal judge since January 26, 2009, was a substitute judge of the 13th Federal Court of Curitiba from 2014 to November 2018 and presided over the court from November 19, 2018 to April 30, 2019 (designated by the TRF4); on November 19, 2018 she issued her first Lava Jato sentence (Renato Duque) and on February 6, 2019 convicted Lula to 12 years and 11 months in the Atibaia ranch case.

Source: Gabriela Hardt (verbete da Wikipédia em português) — Portuguese-language Wikipedia, Oct. 24, 2026 · sections Offices and Decisions · open original ↗

According to the Operation Lava Jato entry: the PF launched the operation on March 17, 2014; in December 2016 there was the Odebrecht leniency agreement; Moro left the operation on November 19, 2018 and Gabriela Hardt took over the court; the entry indicates the end of the operation on February 1, 2021; in September 2023 Toffoli annulled the evidence obtained through the Odebrecht leniency agreement.

Source: Operação Lava Jato (verbete da Wikipédia em português) — Portuguese-language Wikipedia, Oct. 24, 2026 · lead and sections 2014/2018/STF · open original ↗