Lindbergh criticizes Derrite for "stealing and contaminating" Lula's anti-faction bill.
"Instead of strengthening the Brazilian state, the rapporteur created a real risk to national sovereignty and transformed the fight against crime into an electoral weapon," he stated.
247 - The leader of the Workers' Party (PT) in the Chamber of Deputies, Lindbergh Farias (RJ), accused the president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), and the Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, Guilherme Derrite, of having committed a "political theft" against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) in the case of the anti-gang bill, according to [source missing]. Folha de S. Paul.
According to Lindbergh, the rapporteurship granted to Congressman Derrite was used to distort the text prepared by the Ministry of Justice, which aimed to toughen the fight against criminal factions, freeze assets, and create a National Database of Criminal Factions. "They misappropriated the authorship and spirit of the anti-faction bill, prepared by the Ministry of Justice to strengthen the fight against them," stated the Workers' Party leader.
The congressman compared the episode to "theft with abuse of trust," as stipulated in article 155 of the Penal Code. "Derrite stole the text from the government and contaminated it politically, creating a functional equation between factions and terrorism, something that the original project itself expressly avoided," declared Lindbergh.
According to the Workers' Party member, the change promoted by the rapporteur distorted the technical content of the proposal and transformed it into an instrument of electoral dispute. The new text equated the penalties for members of criminal factions with those for terrorist crimes, opening, according to him, legal loopholes that could have serious consequences.
“Instead of strengthening the Brazilian state, the rapporteur created a real risk to national sovereignty and transformed the fight against crime into an electoral and diplomatic weapon, a true political theft, committed under the guise of trust,” said Lindbergh.
The original proposal, drafted by the Ministry of Justice, envisioned harsher penalties against criminal factions without linking the issue to the fight against terrorism—a distinction that, according to the Workers' Party (PT), is essential to avoid international financial sanctions and protect the country's legal autonomy.
