The government’s Sports Secretariat quickly approved financial statements with signs of overpricing by a confederation in state parliamentary amendments.
in December, deputies of the Legislative Assembly directed R$18 million in amendments to the CBKI (Brazilian Confederation of Interestilos Karate) between 2023 and 2025.
The report identified signs of overpricing of around R$1.7 million when contracting suppliers. The entity denied having purchased items priced above those offered on the market and stated that it carried out price research.
After an entity applies a resource from an amendment, it is necessary to send an accounting report for analysis to the respective secretariat, detailing the use of the funds and attaching invoices from the contracted suppliers, and an activity report detailing the development of the project.
The report analyzed the processing of 17 parliamentary amendments directed to CBKI in , between 2023 and 2025. The documents, extracted from the SP Sem Papel system, were obtained via the Access to Information Law.
Two servers responsible for checking the installments, which consist of dozens or hundreds of pages, released technical opinions a few hours after the complete document arrived for analysis.
The report also identified that a secretariat employee directly involved in processing the CBKI amendments, Sueli Maraschin, is close to the confederation’s director, Osvaldo Messias de Oliveira, and his daughter, Monica Oliveira.
After pressure from then-executive secretary José Ribeiro Lemos Junior, Sueli was reassigned last year to the Human Resources sector. Then, at the beginning of 2026, he was dismissed, at the request of the Secretary of Sports,.
In a note sent to Sheetthe ministry stated that the financial statements “are analyzed by public servants in the regular exercise of their duties, observing the principles of legality, impersonality and morality”.
The secretariat also said that “the allegations raised by the report are subject to analysis” and that, if irregularities are found, “administrative and legal measures will be adopted, with due responsibility for those involved.”
The report also sent an email directly to the servers involved in the processing, including Sueli, but received no response.
Between 2023 and 2025, deputies Rodrigo Moraes (PL), Adriana Borgo (Agir), André Bueno (PL), Felipe Franco (União Brasil) and Rui Alves (Republicans) sent resources to the confederation. The deputies stated that they were not aware of any irregularities involving the entity.
According to the work plans and reports presented by CBKI, the amounts were used to promote sports competitions and offer martial arts classes. In a single weekend at the Mauro Pinheiro gymnasium, in Ibirapuera Park, the entity spends up to R$1.5 million to make a competition possible.
For 2026, five state deputies have already allocated R$5.75 million in mandatory (mandatory) amendments to the confederation. They are: André Bueno (PL), Dirceu Dalben (Citizenship), Dr. Eduardo Nóbrega (Podemos), Professor Camila Godoi (PSB) and Vitão do Cachorrão (Republicans).
There is still no public information on the indications for voluntary amendments (transfers without legal obligation), which could increase the resources to be received by the entity.
CBKI is not the only martial arts group awarded large sums in parliamentary amendments throughout the current legislature. In 2025, the Brazilian Confederation of Chinese Martial Arts also benefited, with R$7.3 million in amendments, the Valeparaibana League of Martial Arts, with R$4.2 million, and the São Paulo Karate Federation, with R$2 million.
JET PROCESSING
After the accountability arrives at the Sports Secretariat, it is forwarded to the GTC (Grupo Tomada de Contas), a sector specifically focused on analyzing this document. It is the group’s responsibility, for example, to charge beneficiaries in the case of “illegal or uneconomic acts that result in damage to the treasury” and to adopt administrative measures in this case.
Considering the amendments analyzed by the Sheetservers Helder Burle and Daniela Beletati quickly approved CBKI’s accounts, generally within seconds or a few minutes of each other in the system.
For example, on August 18, 2025, at 9:59 am, the GTC received an accounting regarding the application of resources from an amendment by deputy Gil Diniz. At 2:18 pm, Helder and Daniela had already analyzed and approved the document of around 70 pages.
On the same day, at a similar time, the duo also analyzed another installment of the CBKI, referring to the amendment by deputy André Bueno. The document of around 60 pages was sent to the GTC at 11:16 am. At 3:12 pm, he had already been released by Helder and Daniela.
The group’s analysis is essential to finalize the processing of the amendment and unlock the sending of new resources to the beneficiary entity.
Until the middle of last year, civil servant Sueli Maraschin constantly moved the CBKI amendments in the Sports department system — from the technical and budgetary analysis phase, prior to the commitment, to the preparation of the funding term and, subsequently, monitoring.
Sueli’s personal relationship with the director of the confederation, Osvaldo, and with his daughter, Monica, can be seen on social media. The server tagged her friend in a 2017 post, in a space that appears to be a classroom, and Monica left a comment. In another photo, Osvaldo wrote about Sueli: “Queen, great woman and friend.”
Despite this relationship, she was one of the employees in charge of evaluating the due fulfillment of activities by CBKI, as a member of the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee. In 2022, Sueli also became part of the Selection Committee, responsible for judging public calls to select civil society organizations to establish partnerships with the department.
