Motta Sets Tuesday Vote on Anticrime Bill as Derrite Readies Fifth Draft

Overview

• Chamber President Hugo Motta confirmed the PL Antifacção will be the sole item on Tuesday’s agenda, with relator Guilherme Derrite expected to file a fifth version before the vote.
• The Justice Ministry says Derrite’s substitute distorts the executive proposal, risks a “legal chaos,” and could slow ongoing investigations by creating conflicts in applicable rules.
• Financing and scope remain the core disputes, including where seized assets should go (PF-related funds such as Funad versus the relator’s approach) and a new category of “ultraviolent criminal organization”; earlier drafts that tied PF action to governors’ requests and equated facções to terrorism were dropped.
• Political strain has deepened as Planalto allies question Motta’s choice of Derrite, and PT leader Lindbergh Farias urges another postponement and a new relator, calling the current text confusing and risky.
• In parallel judicial developments, a São Paulo court released five suspects in the Ruy Ferraz Fontes case under electronic monitoring, and the Federal Court in Tabatinga asked TRF-1 to move the Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips jury to Manaus for security and impartiality.