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Judge Alexandre de Moraes, of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil, demanded the payment of nearly $1.9 million in fines to authorize the resumption of activities of the social network the company of previous judicial decisions. In a ruling on Friday, Moraes fined the company an additional 10 million reals ($1.84 million) for the immediate reactivation of is the owner. He also imposed another fine of 300,000 reals (more than $55,000) on his recently appointed legal representative, lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova.
The magistrate explained that the fines are linked to non-compliance with court decisions on September 19 and 23, when the platform circumvented the blockage by being hosted on the servers of the company Cloudflare. As for Rachel de Oliveira, the fine was imposed on her for not having respected the judge’s decisions.
On September 26, X officially submitted a request to the Supreme Court to resume its activities in Brazil, after meeting all the requirements that led to its suspension in the country.
The platform’s defense claimed to have provided the Court with the additional documents requested by Moraes, in particular the original powers of attorney designating the lawyer Rachel de Oliveira Villa Nova as legal representative; the list attesting to the payment of 18 million reals in fines for non-compliance with court decisions; and the blocking of nine accounts of individuals under investigation or accused of crimes on the platform.
