Police chief requests investigation into city councilman who criticized Federal Police in the UFSC case.

247 - The Association of Federal Police Delegates has requested an investigation into Niterói (RJ) city councilman Sandro Mauro Lima de Araújo (PPS) after he criticized Operation Ouvidos Moucos, which investigates alleged embezzlement at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and resulted in the suicide of the institution's former rector, Luis Carlos Cancellier de Olivo. The request for investigation, sent by official letter to the Niterói City Council, was signed by the president of the ADPF, Evandir Felix de Paiva, and alleges that the councilman acted improperly.

The city councilman, who is also a federal police officer, frequently criticizes the actions of various federal delegates. In this specific case, Sandro Mauro used social media to criticize Operation Deaf Ears. The ADPF (National Association of Federal Police Delegates) also filed a complaint with the Federal Police's internal affairs department requesting action regarding the conduct of the councilman, who will be running for federal deputy in this year's elections.

In the document, the ADPF alleges that the councilman published "frivolous, offensive, and unreasonable criticisms against the managers of the Federal Police on a social network open to the public, outside the limits of his duties as a municipal parliamentarian."

Operation Deaf Ears was launched by the Federal Police last year to investigate an alleged embezzlement of scholarship funds at UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina). In September, the rector Luiz Carlos Cancellier de Olivo and six other professors were arrested. In October, he committed suicide by jumping from the seventh floor of a shopping mall in Florianópolis. To date, the Federal Police have not been able to prove that Cancellier benefited from the scheme or from the seventh floor of a shopping mall in Florianópolis.