Federal Deputy Antonio Leocádio dos Santos, known as Antonio Doido (MDB-PA), is investigated by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) suspected of misappropriation of public funds, embezzlement, corruption and money laundering. THE Estadão He sought the parliamentarian, but got no return.
At 48, he is in his first term in the House of Representatives, elected in 2022 with 126,535 votes. Before, he was mayor of the city of São Miguel do Guamá (PA), between 2017 and 2020. The municipality has just over 52 thousand inhabitants, according to IBGE.
In the 2020 elections, he tried the reelection in the city of Pará, by the PL, but was unable to succeed in the process. In 2024, already federal deputy, he tried to become mayor of Ananindeua (PA). He got 23,091 votes and ranked second in the dispute, losing to Dr. Daniel (PSB), reelected with 229,930 votes.
Graduated in Accounting from the Amazon College, the deputy defines himself as an entrepreneur. He is a member of the external committee on paralyzed and unfinished public works in the country and the Urban Development Commission in the House.
In the term of office, Antonio Doido was one of PEC signatories that prohibits the application of sanctions to parties that did not fill the minimum quota of resources or that did not allocate the minimum amounts for female candidates and black candidates in the 2022 elections.
The argument of the text was that the establishment of the minimum quota was occurred on April 5, 2022, election year. “In this context, many of the party entities had difficulty adjusting to the new constitutional command,” says PEC’s justification. The amendment was enacted in August 2024.
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As showed the EstadãoAntonio Doido is among the deputies who most directed parliamentary amendments in 2024. The congressman was responsible for sending R $ 37.8 million to several municipalities of Pará. The funds were intended for budgetary health costs of basic health, medium and high complexity.
Investigations against the parliamentarian began after the seizure of $ 4.9 million in cash with people close to the deputy on the eve of the 2024 elections. The Federal Police assumed the hypothesis that the money would be used to buy votes.
In January 2025, federal police officers found more than $ 1 million with parliamentary advisor Jacob Aarão Serruya Neto. Police are investigating whether the money would be used to pay bribes of civil servants. The inquiry, based on the seizures that total R $ 6 million, is processed in the Federal Supreme Court (STF), because of the deputy forum.
