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The 27 regional superintendents of the Federal Police signed a joint note on Thursday defending their director-general, Andrei Rodrigues, and the force's technical independence.

The unnamed adversary is Supreme Court Justice André Mendonça, appointed by Jair Bolsonaro, who now holds more politically combustible files than anyone else on the bench. He is the rapporteur for the INSS pension-fraud scandal, for the Banco Master case he inherited from Dias Toffoli in February and — after an electronic redraw — for two of the three new inquiries the police requested into Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, the president's son, over suspected influence peddling…

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