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After search and seizure of Brazilian journalist’s phones, court targets his source

"Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a search and seizure targeting former state secretary Raimundo Cutrim, identified in the decision as the source for journalist Luís Pablo in reports about STF Justice Flávio Dino.

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The journalist was himself the target of a search and seizure in March, after publishing reports alleging the improper use of official vehicles by STF Justice Flávio Dino and his family members in Maranhão.

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'Today’s decision says that, after the journalist’s phones were searched, the police concluded that Raimundo Cutrim was the source, that he was passing along privileged information and had the support of the journalist’s lawyer, who was also the target of a search and seizure today. In other words, they are investigating the journalist’s source and the journalist’s lawyer, but they are not investigating what the journalist reported, which was the improper use of the official vehicles,' Cutrim’s lawyer, José Berilo de Freitas Leite, told CNN Brasil."

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