The Federal Police (PF) launched Operation Gemini this Monday (8), targeting a judge and a state deputy from Mato Grosso suspected of selling sentences and money laundering. This morning, search and seizure warrants were executed at addresses linked to judge Dirceu dos Santos, of the Mato Groso Court of Justice (TJMT), and state deputy Faissal Calil (PL), in addition to lawyer Bruno Castro. Related news: Compulsorily retired judge is investigated for selling sentences. Zanin decides that the STF will judge the case of selling sentences at the STJ. STJ opens proceedings against judges accused of selling sentences. According to the PF, they are investigated for crimes of passive corruption, administrative law and money laundering. Both also had banking, tax and telematic secrecy broken. To the local press, who gathered in front of his residence, deputy Faissal Calil declared that he had handed over his cell phone and password to the PF and denied any involvement in a sentence sale scheme. A former civil servant in Mato Grosso, having worked in the office of judge Dirceu dos Santos, the parliamentarian denied having contact with the magistrate. “Since I became a deputy, since I left the Court of Justice, I have lost all contact,” he told journalists. Agência Brasil tries to contact the judge and lawyer Bruno Castro, appointed as an intermediary. The TJMT has not yet commented on the investigations. CNJ Dirceu dos Santos already has a case against him at the National Council of Justice (CNJ), which removed him from his duties at the beginning of March, amid the investigation of financial transactions above what is compatible with a judge's salary. According to breaches of banking and tax secrecy already promoted by the CNJ, the magistrate handled more than R$14.6 million in the last five years. In the same period, he had official income of R$1.9 million. According to the Justice control body, “indications were identified that the requested magistrate made decisions through the possible receipt of undue advantages, intermediating decision-making acts through third parties, businesspeople and lawyers”. The judge's precautionary removal has no fixed period and must last at least until the end of the investigations.