Overview
- The Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil in São Paulo issued a suspension with immediate effect on Wednesday, June 24, blocking Deolane Bezerra from acting as an attorney while its disciplinary process proceeds.
- Deolane remains in preventive detention at the Penitenciária de Tupi Paulista after being held since late May on allegations of money laundering and ties to the Primeiro Comando da Capital.
- The OAB and Deolane’s lawyers have joined forces in a new court filing that asks for her transfer to a Sala de Estado‑Maior or equivalent, citing unsanitary and inadequate cell conditions such as a meal area next to the toilet.
- Police reports used in the investigations allege large financial flows tied to Deolane, including about R$13.6 million through personal accounts and roughly R$14 million through linked companies, and identify phantom companies and requests for asset seizures.
- The case now runs on two tracks: criminal probes and indictments by state investigators with asset‑seizure requests, and a confidential OAB disciplinary process that may impose an initial 90‑day suspension renewable up to 360 days pending final judgment.