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Chamber of Deputies Sets Urgency Vote To Classify Beverage Falsification as a Heinous Crime

The push follows investigations into suspected methanol poisonings linked to adulterated distilled drinks.

Overview

  • The plenary is scheduled to decide Thursday on fast-tracking PL 2307/07, a procedural step that accelerates debate but does not enact the bill.
  • The proposal increases imprisonment for falsifying alcoholic beverages from four to eight years to six to twelve years and designates the offense as heinous.
  • Chamber president Hugo Motta announced the urgency request after a rise in reported intoxication cases, largely concentrated in São Paulo.
  • Health authorities report 43 suspected methanol intoxications under investigation nationwide, including 39 in São Paulo and four in Pernambuco, with one confirmed death.
  • The day’s agenda also includes an urgency request to increase penalties for pedophilia with electronic monitoring, a bill to produce braille election materials, and potential votes on PDLs concerning maritime wrecks and a classified-information agreement with Poland.