Dino suspends ‘pix amendments’ transfers to nine municipalities

The minister from the Federal Supreme Court (STF), determined on Monday (15) that the government suspendes the transfers of parliamentary amendments to nine of the ten municipalities that most received the so-called “amendments pix” between 2020 and 2024, including capitals such as Rio de Janeiro. To the “”They gained this nickname for allowing the transfer of federal funds to states and municipalities through direct transfer to the federated entity’s coffers, without identifying the politician responsible for the appointment, as the money was used or the final beneficiary of public money.

The suspension determined by Dino reaches amendments with suspicions of various irregularities identified by the Comptroller General of Union (CGU) which, by order of the Supreme, audited the execution of the PIX amendments. Dino determined that Investigate such suspicions. In another decision, also of this Monday (15), Dino determined that information from the Federal Court of Audit (TCU) on transfers of R $ 85 million, regarding 148 individual ears without registered work plan, are sent so that the PF would find out possible deviations in the application of public resources.

“The establishment of inquiries must be carried out by the State, in order to investigate the eventual practice of the following criminal offenses: prevarication, disobedience to the court order, irregular employment of public funds, embezzlement, corruption, among others that are revealed in the course of investigations,” said Dino. In 2024, this type of transfer was restricted by the Supreme, which began to require minimum criteria of transparency and traceability for the release of resources. According to CGU, between 2020 and 2024 were allocated more than R $ 17.5 billion in PIX amendments to states and municipalities.

Audit

In an audit on the execution of such amendments in the ten municipalities that received this type of appeal, the CGU just did not find irregularities in relation to the city of São Paulo. The other nine cities, and the respective types of irregularities found, are:

Carapicuíba (SP) – failures in the formalization of the bidding process related to Contract No. 145/2022;
São Luiz do Anauá (RR) – Paralyzed works, with exhausted term;
São João de Meriti (RJ) – indicative of overpricing;
Iracema (RR) – objects executed outside the technical specifications;
Rio de Janeiro (RJ) – evidence of overpricing;
Sena Madureira (AC) – Absence of product delivery documents;
Camaçari (BA) – Deviation of the object of the execution of the contract no. 320/2022;
Heart of Maria (BA) – hiring a company without proof of technical capacity;
Macapá (AP) – Indicative overpricing.

Regarding transparency, the CGU observed absence or insufficiency of information about the amendments in the portals of transparencies of these same municipalities. Still, in these same cities there are irregularities related to the traceability of resources, such as non -opening of a specific account for the receipt of money, a determination of the Supreme.

*With information from Agência Brasil