Committee opposes Stabile, warns of court risk at Corinthians | OneFootball

By Tiago Salazar

The Justice Commission of the Corinthians Deliberative Council was another party to join the discussion about the meeting scheduled by Osmar Stabile, the club's president. The body expressed its opinion through an official letter, citing the risk of possible judicial intervention and recommended the cancellation of the meeting.

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In the document addressed to Stabile, which Gazeta Esportiva had access to, the Corinthians Justice Commission positioned itself against the extraordinary meeting of the CD, scheduled unilaterally by the president, whose purpose is to vote on the provisional removal of Romeu Tuma Júnior, president of the Deliberative Council.

The alvinegro body emphasized the need to act “in defense of the legal security of this sports entity” and cited three reasons to clarify its opposition to the meeting. The first two arguments mention Stabile's decision to schedule the act unilaterally, which goes against Article 82, section II, of the Social Statute, ignored in the call notice and which determines the procedure to be followed for convening an extraordinary meeting in the Deliberative Council.

The Corinthians Justice Commission identified that the meeting's call also ignores the Ethics Commission's instruction procedure, which guarantees the rights of ample defense and contradiction. The body also claimed that the existence of the assembly exposes the club to the risk of judicial intervention. As reported by Gazeta Esportiva last Friday, the São Paulo Public Prosecutor's Office (MP-SP) brought the dispute between Stabile and Tuma to the prosecutor's office and requested the inclusion of the meeting in the inquiry investigating the need for judicial intervention in the club.

Finally, the body also suggested canceling the meeting, initially scheduled for this Monday, at Parque São Jorge, with the first call starting at 6 p.m. (Brasília time).

Tuma and Pantaleão did not recognize the act

Last Friday, Romeu Tuma Júnior and Leonardo Pantaleão, president of the Ethics and Discipline Commission and vice-president of the CD, sent a letter to the club's councilors clarifying that they do not recognize the meeting recently scheduled by Osmar Stabile.

Tuma and Pantaleão believe that the act is invalid, arguing that the measure lacks formal regularity since the call was made by an “authority lacking competence for the practice.” The meeting scheduled by Stabile was also seen as an “affront to the statutory system that governs the functioning of the Deliberative Council.”

Meeting may be included in inquiry

Also on Friday, the MP-SP, through prosecutor Cássio Roberto Conserino, sent a representation to the Public and Social Heritage Prosecutor's Office to request the inclusion of the conflict between Stabile and Tuma in the inquiry investigating the need for possible judicial intervention in the club at Parque São Jorge, initiated in December of last year.

As revealed by the report, Conserino mentioned the meeting scheduled unilaterally by Stabile. The MP-SP was alerted to the “possible irregular administrative act” through an email sent by two councilors and three more members.

The prosecutor's understanding indicates that the “possible irregular administrative acts” move “in the same direction as a possible judicial intervention.” In this sense, the prosecutor argued that the administrative conflict between Stabile and Romeu Tuma Júnior would be another reason to formalize judicial intervention in Corinthians, according to precedents from the STF (Federal Supreme Court).

The dispute between Tuma and Stabile

The disagreement between Romeu Tuma Júnior and Osmar Stabile intensified during a meeting to vote on the reform of the Social Statute, which ended in a heated argument at Parque São Jorge on March 9.

Days after the confusion, Stabile filed a request for the precautionary removal of Romeu Tuma Júnior with the Ethics and Discipline Commission of the Corinthians Deliberative Council, based on Articles 27, 28, and 30 of the alvinegro statute.

Last Wednesday, the president of Corinthians, without having contacted the Deliberative Council, called an extraordinary CD meeting to vote on the provisional removal of Romeu Tuma Júnior, based on Article 112, item 6, of the Timão Social Statute.

Romeu Tuma Júnior received the extraordinary CD meeting called by Stabile with “indignation.” In contact with Gazeta Esportiva, the president of the body reiterated that he was not informed about the call and classified Stabile's act as a “coup maneuver.” He also spoke of a “deliberate strategy” to obstruct the progress of the Corinthians Statute reform project.

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