Overview

• Ministers Kassio Nunes Marques, Edson Fachin and André Mendonça voted to maintain the preventive arrests in the virtual session.
• Gilmar Mendes declared himself impeded from judging the case, leaving Dias Toffoli’s vote outstanding.
• Police say Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes acted as a facilitator for improper discounts on social-security benefits, with potential diversions estimated at up to R$2 billion in a year.
• Investigators report R$53.5 million in movements tied to Antunes, more than R$9 million transferred to people linked to the INSS, and evidence of overseas property and luxury vehicles cited as flight risk indicators.
• Antunes denied involvement in testimony to the CPMI do INSS after his September 12 arrest, saying his assets come from honest work.