Key legal question
Whether the Brazilian request was inadmissible as a purely fiscal request under Art. 3(3) EIMP
Extracted holding
No. The request concerned ordinary criminal conduct, and the alleged tax fraud did not make the assistance essentially fiscal.
Extracted reasoning
The request mainly targeted fuel adulteration and related common-law offences. The Brazilian authorities also alleged that false invoices were used to obtain favourable tax treatment; Swiss authorities may rely on those assertions without re-examining them in detail.