The (Comptroller General of the Union) sees illegalities in federal transfers of R$ 12.8 million in federal transfers, from 2019 to 2022, to the Londrina Cancer Institute, which has his father-in-law on its board. The information is in the body’s report finalized at the end of 2024.
Part of the resources received by the institute come from the Bolsonaro deputy. The Comptroller states that the situation is prohibited by the rules that deal with partnerships between the public administration and civil society organizations. According to the document, they prevent the signing of partnerships with entities that have a member of Power as their leader.
The parliamentarian, through his advisor, denied irregularities and told the Sheet which corroborated another from the state bench of around R$5 million, due to the “wide reach of the institute” in Paraná.
The entity, from the (Supreme Federal Court), on the 3rd, due to a lack of transparency in the execution of resources.
The CGU stated that the volume of partnerships signed between it and the institute, among the other entities analyzed by the body, drew attention, and that they were signed during the period in which a parliamentarian elected in 2018 had a relative in management.
In no agreement was a public call made to choose the NGO and, in eight of them, payments came from parliamentary amendments, according to the Comptroller’s Office.
The report does not mention Barros’ name, but the Sheet confirmed with people linked to the case that it is the parliamentarian. According to a CGU survey, the deputy’s father-in-law was the institution’s financial director and treasurer until 2022. He is currently a member of the deliberative council, according to the entity’s website.
A publication on the institute’s website from August 2021 shows a photo of the deputy visiting the hospital. On the occasion, directors, including his father-in-law, presented him with a plaque in gratitude for the bench amendment previously allocated to the institution.
“The resource, worth R$ 2,216,558.50, was used to cover the treatment of 647 patients from 84 municipalities in Paraná, including Londrina. The meeting was an important moment of accountability and gratitude for the partnership between the deputy and the institution that is a reference in oncology care for 166 cities in Paraná”, says the text.
The CGU included the case in situations that may go against the principles of public administration, especially those of impersonality, morality and efficiency. The body also emphasizes that the Civil Code establishes that father-in-law constitutes a kinship link up to the second degree by affinity, and is therefore covered by the previously exposed prohibition.
When contacted, the parliamentarian responded that the hospital, due to its wide reach in Paraná to serve patients undergoing cancer treatment, usually receives joint help from federal deputies from the state through bench amendments, as was the case in question.
He also said that allocating resources to improve health, helping public and philanthropic hospitals, is one of the priorities of his parliamentary work and that the Londrina Cancer Hospital “is a historic, honored and nationally renowned institution, which provides free care to thousands of patients from Paraná and neighboring states”.
Regarding his father-in-law’s work, he stated that, as well as that of other members of the board, “it is entirely voluntary, without any type of remuneration, donating time, energy and experience, in a rotating mandate with other members of Londrina’s productive sector “. The hospital was contacted by phone and email for the report, but did not respond.
The Ministry of Health was contacted and also did not comment.
In a statement, the Londrina Cancer Institute states that it has been operating for 59 years, serving 1.29 million people per year (92.3% of SUS patients), and that this work is only possible “due to donations from the community and public resources coming from different politicians, from different public spheres, regardless of party and ideology”. The hospital’s operations, says the note, are subordinate to the SUS and are audited by it.
It was also included in the CGU list obtained by Sheet whose president is Maria Angélica Borges de Andrada, sister of federal deputy Lafayette de Andrada (Republicanos-MG).
According to information from the federal government’s Transparency Portal, in July and December 2022, Santa Casa received R$822,000 in amendments from the parliamentarian.
The deputy stated that it is a philanthropic hospital, “a century-old institution that carries out extremely important work in the area of health throughout the region, especially in pediatrics and neonatal ICU” and that it has no direct relationship with the entity.
Regarding his sister, he said that she is president of the council, an unpaid position, does not perform an executive or management role, without legal restrictions and that her amendments “are all duly filed with the Ministry of Health with all the transparency required by law”. Santa Casa did not respond to contacts made by the report.
