Judge calls TJ after defendant buys property in front of his house in AL A man accused of participating in two attempted murders bought a property in front of the house of the judge responsible for the case, in São José da Tapera, in the Sertão of Alagoas. The information is contained in a court decision published on July 22. ?Join the g1 Alagoas channel The defendant is Paulo Augusto de Lima Vieira. According to judge Elielson dos Santos Pereira, the purchase may have occurred with the intention of creating a personal rapprochement with the judge. g1 was unable to locate Paulo Augusto's defense. The Public Prosecutor's Office requested Paulo Augusto's preventive detention, but the judge did not analyze the request. As the case has an ongoing appeal at the Court of Justice of Alagoas (TJ-AL), he sent the case to judge Tutmés Airan de Albuquerque Melo, responsible for the appeal. The defendant's arrest has not yet been ordered. Judge points out possible attempt to influence In the decision, the judge states that possible non-compliance with the measures imposed on the defendant and the suspicion that he used his economic power to try to influence the progress of the process need to be investigated. The judge also cited a statement from co-defendant José Wanderson dos Santos. In testimony, he stated that Paulo Augusto would be free because he had money. "I'm only stuck here because I don't have money. If I had money like Paulo Augusto has, who spent more than a million, I would be on the street", said José Wanderson, according to the excerpt reproduced in the decision. São José da Tapera, in Alagoas. Lucas Malta The value of more than R$1 million appears only in the co-defendant's speech. The document does not present evidence that this amount was used by the defendant. For the magistrate, the statement, combined with the purchase of the property, could give the impression that Paulo Augusto would have influence and easy access to authorities because of his financial condition. The judge himself points out, however, that this supposed influence may not exist in reality. The decision also states that no documents were presented to explain the circumstances of the purchase of the property. According to the magistrate, after the case was mentioned in a previous decision, Paulo Augusto would no longer have been seen in the condominium. Now, it will be up to the TJ-AL judge to analyze the request for preventive detention and the facts reported by the judge.