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The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry will have a guide on classified data.

The chairman of the committee, Senator Vital do Rgo, distributed to the group members a summary of the internal regulations and codes of ethics of the Chamber, the Senate, and the Congress; he lamented the leak of a Federal Police investigation, published by 247.

Agency Brazil - Despite the leak of the classified content of the Vegas and Monte Carlo operations investigations even before they reached the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPMI) on Cachoeira, Senator Vital do Rêgo (PMDB-PB), president of the commission, said today (30) that he will send all members of the CPMI a booklet with the rules of Parliament regarding the handling of classified data.

According to Vital do Rêgo, the guide will be a "summary" of the internal regulations and codes of ethics of the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, and the Congress. "We have already given some guidelines and are also preparing a guide that summarizes the material contained in the three codes of ethics and the regulations that codify this work. This includes the common regulations of Congress, as well as those of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. We are establishing this guide highlighting the conduct of each parliamentarian in relation to confidentiality," Vital do Rêgo told Agência Brasil.

The Chamber's Code of Ethics, for example, provides for the punishment of suspension of parliamentary privileges for a deputy who reveals the content of debates or deliberations that took place in closed sessions, as well as for disclosing official information and documents of a confidential nature.

Next Wednesday (2) morning, the president of the CPMI will receive from the hands of a court officer the case files with the investigations of the operations carried out by the Federal Police that reveal the involvement of parliamentarians in the fraudulent scheme orchestrated by the gambling businessman, Carlos Augusto Ramos, Carlinhos Cachoeira, who is imprisoned in Brasília.

Senator Vital do Rêgo lamented the leak of information after access to data under judicial secrecy was granted to Congress by Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Ricardo Lewandowski, the case's rapporteur at the Court. He said it is up to the Supreme Court and the Attorney General's Office to investigate the leak.