Overview
- Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski and Governor Cláudio Castro created an Emergency Office to integrate actions, with Rio’s Victor Cesar Santos and the federal secretary Mário Sarrubbo sharing coordination.
- The Superior Court of Justice, acting on a PGFN request, reinstated the shutdown of the Refit refinery as fuel‑sector probes target alleged crime financing, and the Finance Ministry will dispatch PGFN leadership to brief the state.
- The Senate approved PL 226/2024 tightening preventive detention criteria, and a Senate inquiry into organized crime is set to be installed next Tuesday.
- In the Chamber, Speaker Hugo Motta named Guilherme Derrite as rapporteur for PL 1283/2025 to treat faction and militia actions as terrorism and to raise penalties for rifles, grenades, barricades and “novo cangaço.”
- Lewandowski said the government neither endorses nor rules out a GLO and opposes labeling factions as terrorists, while President Lula urged coordinated action and pressed the Security PEC and a forthcoming anti‑faction package.