A São Paulo state court banned the Folha de Vinhedo weekly on 15 June from publishing an interview in which Paulo Cabral, the Vinhedo municipal government’s former legal secretary, accused various local officials and businessmen of corruption.
The ban was requested by two businessmen named in the interview, Rogério Sanches Cunha and Osias Daudt, and a local judge, Herivelto Araújo Godoy. Their lawyer said Cabral was “under the influence of alcohol” when he gave the interview.
Ruling that the interview would “sully the credibility of the Vinhedo judicial authorities and prosecutor’s office,” state judge Ana Lúcia Xavier Goldman ordered “preventive censorship”of the newspaper on 1 and 15 June and a fine of about 200 euros for each copy of the newspaper published in violation of the ban.
