It paid approximately R $ 730,000 in public funds to the advocacy office accountant, party president, to also take care of the acronym accounts.
José Edjackson da Silva provides services to Rueda & Rueda Advogados, the office of the leader and his sister Maria Emilia “Mila” Rueda, the party’s treasurer since January 2018, according to information he himself published on the LinkedIn platform.
By Rueda’s nomination, he began working for União Brasil four years later, in 2022.
Periodic accounts reported by the accountant said he was taking care of the implementation and adequacy of Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Resource Planning) and also the accounting, financial and organizational management of União Brasil, among other tasks.
In 2022, he received $ 175,000 from the party for work. The following year, R $ 242 thousand, and in 2024, R $ 312 thousand.
In a statement, the party says that “performs all its hires within legal and party rules” and that Edjackson acts “independently, with different contracts for each function, without overlap or conflict of interest.” However, the caption did not send documents that prove separate payments.
When União Brasil emerged in October 2021, Rueda was chosen to be vice president of the party, below only Luciano Bivar.
God’s godfather in law and politics, Bivar broke relations with him after disputes for the command of the acronym, which arose from the merger of PSL and DEM. It involved accusations of betrayal, death threats, and.
The airline tickets for Edjackson to move between Brasilia and Recife, where he lived until last year and where the headquarters of Rueda’s office is located, were also paid with public resources.
The 2024 accountability of the Indigo Foundation, linked to União Brasil and in which Edjackson was placed as Director Finance, shows R $ 37.5 thousand in tickets for the accountant to take the route between the capitals Pernambuco and Federal from January to November from last year.
The party states that the passages “refer exclusively to displacements within the foundation itself, which has a fixed structure in Recife, and are properly registered.” The acronym also says that the position of director of the Foundation is not paid.
Edjackson is one of the closest allies of the president of União Brasil. In October last year, when União Brasil conducted intervention in the Pernambuco directory of the subtitle, Rueda decided that the accountant would be chairman of the Provisional Commission.
The report called to the headquarters of Rueda & Rueda Advogados in Recife, which received the information that Edjackson today operates in the office of Brasilia, which, in turn, reported that the accountant usually works in person on site on Fridays.
At União Brasil’s national headquarters, the only past information was that any direct contact with Edjackson must be preceded by sending an email.
Rueda today is under pressure. A report published by the plane pilot Mauro Caputti Mattosinho told the Federal Police that the president of União Brasil is the real owner of at least four aircraft operated by an aircraft allegedly linked to Roberto Augusto Leme da Silva, Beto Louco, and Mohamad Hussein Mourad, the cousin, investigated for suspected money to wash.
In reaction, the Government Party (PT), originally scheduled for the end of September. União Brasil sees influence from the Planalto Palace in the report, since one of its authors also has a program on TV Brasil.
Rueda and Senator (PI), president of, are the two main leaders of the newly formed Progressive Union Federation, which has 109 deputies and 15 senators.
In its note, União Brasil also says it acts with transparency and accounts for and that the choice of providers follows the principle of economy.
“The party reduced its expenses by 61% from 2022 to 2024. The financial restructuring of 2022 and the internalization of accounting in 2025 generated economies over R $ 1.2 million annually. These measures demonstrate responsible management, focusing on legality, efficiency and transparency,” says the legend, through his communication advisory.
Carlos Ari Sundfeld, professor at FGV and specialist in Administrative Law, tells the Sheet that an case with these characteristics would make him pay more attention to the party’s accounts if it was the Electoral Court. He analyzed the situation without knowing the identity of the caption and those involved.
“When you have a same person working in various places, one of which is in the personal interest of a party leader, the risk is that the party is paying for someone to work in the private office as well,” he says.
“It is a problem that has happened to deputies. They hire someone who eventually does something in the office, but works at least part of the time in the house or parliamentary site. I do not know if this problem exists in this case. To know, it is necessary to see if the remuneration offered for each work, the office, the party and the foundation, are suitable for the market,” he adds.
Sundfeld says that such relationships can serve to hide group actions to manipulate party resources.
“If I were a member of the party in question, I would suggest a change, as it is a kind of dangerous thing that raises concern. The situation [contratação da mesma pessoa para todas as funções] It has no illegality in itself, but it is inconvenient to ensure the best treatment of accounting records. A basic principle of governance is to look for people with maximum independence to ensure that they work with freedom, “he concludes.
