PT Sues Deputy Gustavo Gayer Over Claim Party Is Funded by Venezuelan Narcotrafficking

Overview

• The lawsuit was filed in the 19th Civil Court of Brasília after Gayer made the allegation in a Chamber plenary and posted the speech on his YouTube channel.
• PT alleges the deputy knowingly spread a false and degrading message intended to incite public hatred toward the party.
• The filing notes the video has drawn about 130,000 views on a channel with more than 1.26 million subscribers.
• The party seeks a court order to take the video down and to collect R$30,000 for moral damages.
• Coverage by one outlet referenced separate remarks by a former U.S. Treasury official about Venezuelan funds in the region as background, which are not presented as evidence in this case, and Gayer had not commented publicly by publication.