Those accused in the Cachoeira CPI may have their assets confiscated.

247 – If convicted, Delta will have to return the public money diverted through illicit activities. This is what Congressman Miro Teixeira (RJ) intends, who advocates as a starting point a request to freeze the assets of those under investigation. Miro will also request data on the activities of the pharmaceutical laboratory Vitapan, owned by the family of the illegal gambling operator Carlinhos Cachoeira, to find out if it benefited from Anvisa's approval of registrations for the manufacture of medicines.

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BRASILIA - While the Workers' Party (PT) and the opposition work to politicize the work of the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) on Cachoeira, which will be installed this Wednesday in Congress, a group of parliamentarians, called independents, will try to give a technical direction to the investigations. This is the case of Congressman Miro Teixeira (RJ), who defends as a starting point a request to freeze the assets of those under investigation. The detailing of Delta's dealings with politicians is the group's target.

"The goal is to recover the (public) money diverted through illicit activities, in case of conviction," Miro explained. "With the emergence of Delta, the CPI became inevitable. Apparently, it appears only superficially in the records."

Delta is also the focus of another senator from the group, Pedro Taques (PDT-MT):

— We need to investigate its meteoric growth.

Miro will also request data on the activities of the pharmaceutical laboratory Vitapan, owned by the family of illegal gambling operator Carlinhos Cachoeira, to determine if it benefited from Anvisa's approval of drug manufacturing licenses. Former Anvisa director, Governor Agnelo Queiroz (DF), admitted to meeting with Cachoeira between 2009 and 2010, when he held the position at the agency.

Also from the so-called independent group of the CPI, Jarbas Vasconcelos (PMDB-PE) argues that the first to be summoned should be Cachoeira, Fernando Cavendish (Delta), and Senator Demóstenes Torres (independent-GO). Another who is beginning to gain prominence on this list is the former president of DNIT, Luiz Antonio Pagot, who left the PR party this Monday "to prepare to testify before the CPI." He accuses Congressman Valdemar Costa Neto (PR-SP) of being "the true agent of Delta" within DNIT.

"It can't be a parliamentary inquiry against the government. It has to be against organized crime. We have the opportunity to get to the bottom of the barrel, to the corrupt and the corrupters," Jarbas believes.

The PMDB and PT parties are still entangled in defining their members for the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry). The PT leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Jilmar Tatto (SP), will officially announce this Tuesday, within the deadline, the PT deputy who will be the rapporteur for the CPI. On Monday, the most favored candidates were Paulo Teixeira (SP), former leader and preferred by the Planalto Palace, and Luiz Sérgio, who was the rapporteur for the Corporate Credit Card CPI and left the Dilma Rousseff government with a tarnished reputation after serving in two ministries.

In the Senate, the leader of the PMDB party, Renan Calheiros (AL), maintained on Monday his intention not to officially participate in the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry), but to operate from the outside. And his newest strategy to embarrass the government leader in the Senate, Eduardo Braga (PMDB-AM), is to nominate him to join the CPI, to force him to defend the government.

The PSDB leader in the Senate, Álvaro Dias (PR), already has 25 requests ready, focusing on irregularities involving Delta. In the Chamber of Deputies, the PSDB leader Bruno Araújo (PE) is also targeting the government.

— Cachoeira's cocoon was in Goiás, but then it became a butterfly, conquered Brazil, and landed on the Planalto.