Overview

• Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes appeared before the panel under STF habeas corpus protections, declined to answer the rapporteur, denied wrongdoing, and remains jailed since Sept. 12 in the probe of alleged illicit discounts that the Federal Police say diverted more than R$ 6 billion.
• Investigators allege Antunes paid over R$ 9 million in bribes to INSS employees to access beneficiary data, with funds then funneled through associations and companies linked to him.
• The CPMI approved sending a preventive‑arrest request for lawyer Nelson Wilians to the STF and ordered the breaking of his fiscal and banking secrecy, citing PF findings of roughly R$ 4.3 billion in suspicious transactions tied to his firm and a land deal without documentary proof.
• A Coaf intelligence report cited by the commission records a R$ 1.6 million transfer in July 2020 from Rubens Oliveira Costa to Clélia Antunes, sister of Antunes, prompting moves to hear family members in the inquiry.
• The committee set hearings for Sept. 29 with Conafer president Carlos Lopes and businessman Fernando Cavalcanti, as Conafer is listed among top recipients of associative deductions and Cavalcanti was targeted in PF searches that seized luxury assets; lawmakers also rejected summonses for Gustavo Marques Gaspar and Silas Bezerra.