Fachin Launches National Judiciary Network To Fight Tech‑Driven Organized Crime

Overview

• On Tuesday, July 14, 2026, Edson Fachin, as president of the CNJ and the STF, publicly launched the Rede Nacional de Magistrados e Magistradas com Competência em Criminalidade Organizada to coordinate the judiciary's response to modern organized crime.
• The new network is built around three operational axes: asset tracing with an emphasis on crypto and telematic investigations, technical training for judges on PIX, straw accounts and low‑regulation betting platforms, and faster joint procedures to preserve time‑sensitive evidence.
• Fachin singled out clandestine online betting platforms as a key laundering vector that criminal groups use to create apparently lawful companies and to integrate proceeds from trafficking, contraband and corruption.
• He called for formal cooperation with financial and enforcement bodies — including Receita Federal, Coaf, Banco Central, the Ministério Público and federal and state police — to share financial intelligence and trace cross‑border flows.
• Fachin warned that targeting criminal finances raises threats to magistrates, and he tied enhanced judge protection to preserving judicial independence and to the network's goal of speeding effective prosecutions and asset freezes.