Senate Crime CPI Opens Hearings as Chamber Sets Vote on Revised Anti‑Faction Bill

Overview

• Federal Police chief Andrei Rodrigues and intelligence head Leandro Almada testify on Nov. 18 as the Senate CPI begins depositions to probe how prisons, police intelligence and financing networks intersect.
• Senators also move to examine alleged sentence‑selling at the Superior Court of Justice, with Eduardo Girão seeking Federal Police reports and witnesses tied to Operation Sisamnes.
• Chamber president Hugo Motta kept the PL Antifacção on Tuesday’s agenda while signaling the rapporteur, Guilherme Derrite, may file a new version after four drafts reshaped penalties, prison rules and investigative tools.
• The government objects to Derrite’s approach on defining factions outside existing law, curbing extraordinary asset forfeiture and redirecting seized funds away from PF and federal mechanisms, with Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski calling terrorism tweaks risky and poorly drafted.
• Opposition leaders prepare highlights to equate factions to terrorism and to limit custody‑hearing protections, though Motta indicates resistance and the current report no longer changes the Anti‑Terrorism Law.