Teori Zavascki
Brazilian judge
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Key Takeaways
- At the time of his death he was the justice in charge of the trials resulting from Operation Car Wash.
- Official enquiries into the crash began on 20 January and the cockpit voice recorder was recovered.
- More than 200 politicians and business people were possibly implicated in a graft scheme that Zavascki was investigating.
- The conclusion was that there was no shortage of kerosene.
Teori Albino Zavascki (15 August 1948 – 19 January 2017) was a Brazilian judge who served as Justice of the Superior Court of Justice from 8 May 2003 until 29 November 2012, appointed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and as Justice of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil from 29 November 2012 until his death on 19 January 2017, having been appointed to the position by President Dilma Rousseff. At the time of his death he was the justice in charge of the trials resulting from Operation Car Wash.
Death
Zavascki was killed in an airplane crash in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro around 2:00 PM (16:00 GMT) on Thursday, 19 January 2017. Official enquiries into the crash began on 20 January and the cockpit voice recorder was recovered. Also killed were four other people on board, including the pilot, and Carlos Alberto Fernandes Filgueiras, a partner in BTG Pactual, whose president, André Esteves, had been arrested in the Operation Car Wash investigation. More than 200 politicians and business people were possibly implicated in a graft scheme that Zavascki was investigating.
Final investigation results
On 22 January 2018, the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Accidentes Aeronáuticos, CENIPA) presented their final report. The conclusion was that there was no shortage of kerosene. The crash was attributed to three major factors:
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