Overview

• Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, in preventive detention since September 12, appeared at the Senate backed by an STF ruling that allowed him to remain silent and refused to answer questions from the CPI's relator after clashes that briefly halted the session.
• Federal Police say the scheme skimmed more than R$ 6 billion from INSS beneficiaries and paid over R$ 9 million in bribes, and seized 14 luxury cars valued at about R$ 6 million from Antunes.
• The CPI approved requests to break bank secrecy and forwarded to the Supreme Court a preventive-arrest request for lawyer Nelson Willians, noting that only the judiciary can enforce such detentions.
• Investigators are examining a Coaf financial intelligence report that flags a R$ 1.6 million transfer in July 2020 to Antunes's sister, Clélia, from Rubens Oliveira Costa, who denies being a business partner and says he only began working for Antunes in 2022.
• The commission expanded its witness list by summoning Antunes's son and wife and advanced a request to hear his sister as it maps potential family and associate ties to the alleged laundering network.