Overview
- The São Paulo prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary disciplinary inquiry into Marcelo Otávio Camargo Ramos after he asked a court to reject a civil case against influencer Monark for alleged praise of Nazism.
- The internal watchdog said Ramos’s filing looked like an indirect attempt to abandon the case, which is barred in collective actions, and flagged a possible breach of the duty to protect the prestige and dignity of the institution.
- Ramos’s lawyer asked for the inquiry to be closed and argued his position was a reasoned assessment on the merits under constitutional functional independence, not a withdrawal or a personal act without basis.
- After Ramos’s filing, administrative orders that placed him in the post were changed and then voided, and the case went to prosecutor Ricardo Manuel Castro, who told the judge to ignore the earlier view and again sought R$ 4 million in damages.
- Monark’s legal team asked the National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to review interim chief Plínio Gentil’s role in the switch, alleging misuse of appointment powers, while the civil case continues in São Paulo’s 37th Civil Court based on Monark’s 2022 podcast remarks about a legal Nazi party.