The (Comptroller General of the Union) investigates 20 NGOs from the center and the right from 2020 to 2024.
The objective of the body, linked to the government (), is to analyze the application of these resources, the technical capacity of these institutions and the transparency of hiring.
The list was drawn up after a determination by the minister, the (Supreme Federal Court), to comb all types of amendments, such as rapporteurs, committees and the so-called Pix — a type of individual amendment that sends transfers to city halls .
There are transfers of amendments during the governments of (PL) and Lula and, among the authors of the amendments, even politicians from Dino’s former party in his political career, the PC do B. This relationship of NGOs does not determine any illegality, but rather that the application of resources will be analyzed by the Controllership.
The amendments are the center of a crisis between Congress and the Judiciary — for resources controlled by parliamentarians, who, in turn, are behind the actions of the STF minister.
President Lula has already criticized the volume of amendments and, this Wednesday (6), he once again poked at Congress. “If I make a spending cut to reduce the Budget’s investment capacity, the question I ask is the following: will Congress agree to reduce the amendments?”, he said in an interview with RedeTV!.
On Tuesday morning (5), the list of NGOs prepared by the Comptroller’s Office was one of the topics of conversation between the CGU minister, Vinícius Marques, and Lula at Palácio do Planalto because of the large number of parties involved in the transfers.
Amendments are a way in which deputies and senators can send money for works and projects in their electoral bases and, in doing so, increase their political capital. A , and not the locations with the highest demand in the country.
The cut-off used by the Controllership was that of the institutions that received the most these resources in the period. The legislation prohibits the direct transfer of resources from Pix amendments to non-governmental organizations.
Of those selected by the CGU, ten NGOs received R$497.4 million in transfers in amendments, from 2020 to 2024, and the other ten received the allocation of R$27.7 million just through Pix amendments, with R$18.2 million already paid.
According to a note from the Comptroller, the selection of NGOs to be investigated followed strict technical criteria, focusing on transparency and public interest.
One of the related organizations, the Moriá Association, is an example of supra-partisanship in the distribution of these resources.
The organization, whose headquarters are in a room in a commercial building in the central area of Brasília, received R$ 20.3 million in amendments from politicians from the most varied parties, such as senator Izalci Lucas (PL-DF), district deputy Paula Belmonte (Cidadania-DF) and former federal deputy Perpétua Almeida (PC do B-AC).
Izalci announced on social media that he “alone allocated R$7.5 million in parliamentary amendments for the project” of digital educational games. The senator stated that all the information on the amendment is on the government platform, with favorable opinions from analyzes by technicians from the Ministry of Sports.
Perpétua said that he sent R$3.1 million to the NGO to carry out digital educational games, with specific rooms for classes, courses and games in Acre, and that the program is running.
Paula Belmonte allocated R$500,000 in an individual amendment, when she was a federal deputy, to hold a digital student gaming event in Brasília.
The deputy’s office said that she allocated the funds to support and promote a project to integrate inclusive socio-educational actions through digital sport, aimed at teenagers and young people in vulnerable situations. “I highlight that the project is directly related to the purposes of the deputy’s main banner, which is the defense of children and young people, encouraging investments by public authorities from early childhood.”
The Moriá Association said that the development terms were signed through the Ministry of Sports in the TranfereGov transparency system, “a portal where any citizen can monitor accountability.”
He also said that the ministry checks the work plan and the budget spreadsheet to authorize the proposed actions, “without ever having identified any irregularity”. “The association adopts a model of compliance and transparency, providing all information online to society.”
Among the NGOs that received resources via Pix amendments listed by the CGU are the Institute of Management in Social and Urban Development and the Liga dos Blocos de Micareta e Carnaval (Liblomica), both in the municipality of Santana, in Amapá, which had Sebastião Bala (PP ) re-elected as mayor. Each had around R$3 million committed.
Santana City Hall said that all entities that signed contracts with the municipality were selected through a widely publicized public call.
He also said that, “in general, parliamentarians presented special transfer amendments without determining the objects and without indicating recipient entities.”
Dino had extended until the 11th the delivery by the CGU of the presentation of an audit of all transfers of parliamentary amendments to NGOs and other third sector entities during this period, but the Controllership decided to bring this delivery forward by a few days.
in 2025, if the amount of payments is compatible with the separation of Powers.
According to Dino, the debate is motivated by the increase in the value of amendments during the Bolsonaro government — a jump from R$13.8 billion committed in 2019 to R$37.5 billion in 2020, in nominal values (without correction for inflation). This year, .
