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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) approached megaoperation against organized crime in an interview granted on Friday (29/8). During conversation with journalists from Radio Itatiaiathe chief executive spoke about federal revenue inspection measures and, without mentioning the name of Nikolas Ferreira (PL), recalled the viral video about supposed PIX taxation. According to Lula, the publication aimed to defend organized crime.
“There is a deputy who has made a campaign, knows, against the changes that the IRS proposed and now it is proven that what he was doing was defending organized crime and we will not give respite for organized crime,” he said, without mentioning the name of the parliamentary. He also signaled that the measure, which determined the sending of information to e-financial whenever there were movements over R $ 5,000 monthly in the case of individuals and R $ 15,000 monthly for legal entities, must be implemented.
President of the Republic, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, during an interview with Radio Itatiaia. Pampulha Airport – Belo Horizonte (MG) / Photo: Ricardo Stuckert / PR
Nikolas published an excerpt from the interview on social networks and called Lula’s “Canalhice”. “I will go to justice to respond for this defamation just as I will do with all the others – I am compiling everything,” he said.
In early 2025, a video in which Nikolas accused the government of trying to tax the Pix after change in the revenue surveillance rule. Because of the repercussion, the government had to retreat from the measure.
The misinformation content disseminated by the parliamentarian was also criticized by Revenue Secretary Robinson Barreirinhas on Thursday (28/8). “These fake news was so strong that, despite all the effort of the IRS, aided by the traditional media, we could not reverse the lies,” he said. “We had to step back and revoke the normative instruction. And today’s operations show who won with these lies: organized crime.”
According to Revenue, revocation created a “regulatory vacuum” and allowed criminal organizations to use fintechs and passage accounts to move large amounts without tracking.
Combating organized crime
During the interview, Lula classified operations triggered on Thursday as “the most important operation in Brazil’s 525 -year history” against organized crime and stressed that the action reached names of the “top” of the factions. When asked if the operation could be a response to the accusations of Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who accused the PT of relation to the crime, the agent replied: “Let’s see who is in organized crime.”
The president said the operations will “show the face of those who are part of organized crime” and that the federal government will work to support the Federal Police. “Organized crime today is a very sophisticated thing, because it is in politics, in football, in justice, is in everything that is place, is a very powerful international arm, has relations with the whole world, is a true multinational,” he said.
Hidden carbon operations, Quasar and Tank, which investigate corruption schemes linked to the First Capital Command (CCP), has the collaboration of the Federal Police, Federal Revenue, Public Prosecution Service and National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP).
Investigations show that about 1,000 gas stations in ten states moved more than $ 52 billion between 2020 and 2024, using fintechs as “parallel banks” to hide illicit resources.
