Lawyer Victor Travancas has held several positions in the current state administration and states that, for months, he has been trying to be exonerated
Lawyer Victor Travancas, advisor to the Secretariat of the Civil House of the government of (PL-RJ), stated on Thursday (12.mar.2026) that the Guanabara Palace, headquarters of the state Executive, “It’s Rio de Janeiro’s organized crime office”. The statement was made in an interview with former governor Anthony Garotinho, on the program, on YouTube.
“I usually say that Palácio Guanabara is the office of organized crime in Rio de Janeiro. In fact, organized crime in Rio de Janeiro operates inside Palácio Guanabara”declared the advisor.
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In the interview, Travancas stated that he had asked to be removed from office several times and that he had gone to court to leave Castro’s government. However, he was not fired, because, according to him, as long as he is working for the governor, he cannot sue him.
“I’m speaking as an insider. I wasn’t fired. I’m in the government. Nobody fires me. It’s a wonderful thing. I sent a message on WhatsApp yesterday: ‘Please fire me’. And I wasn’t fired.”he declared.
Qualifying the situation of the Rio de Janeiro government as “very serious”Travancas criticized the governor’s hiring for his secretariat. “Cláudio’s nomination criteria [Castro] has been naming a criminal”these.
The lawyer mentioned as an example the former federal deputy (União Brasil), who was interim secretary of the State Government Representation in Brasília. Moura was arrested in 2021 for crimes against public administration. In 2023, the STF declared the extinction of punishment after the partial approval of an agreement proposed by the PGR (Attorney General’s Office). According to Travancas, “Moura says: ‘I’m a great friend of TH Joias”former state deputy on suspicion of involvement with the CV (Comando Vermelho).
Another example given by the lawyer is the former state deputy secretary, whose son, Vitor Hugo Oliveira Simonin is 1 of the 4 defendants in the case in Copacabana, reported by a minor.
COMING AND COMING FROM JOBS
Travancas was assistant undersecretary of governor Cláudio Castro’s office, a role that, according to him, included doing the compliance of the State government. In September 2024, he resigned from his position.
Months later, in December, he was appointed director of the (Public Archive of the State of Rio de Janeiro). With just a few days in charge of the archive, Travancas discovered that the institution had 26 ghost employees, in addition to serious problems in the structure of its building. The cracks and exposed electrical wiring put at risk documents such as those from the Dops (Delegation of Political and Social Order), which covered the dictatorship of the Estado Novo (1930-1945) and the military dictatorship (1964-1985).
In January 2025, he was dismissed from the leadership of Aperj to be appointed, in July, as an advisor to the Castro Civil House Secretariat. And, at least since November, he has been asking for a new dismissal from his position.
Travancas’ involvement in controversies with the very governments he works for did not begin with Castro.
According to the newspaper report in April 2018, the lawyer accepted a position as advisor on a board of directors at RioCentro – a convention center that belongs to the municipal Executive, managed by a private company – after having filed, in the previous year, 67 legal actions against the City Hall of (Republicans). One of these processes was to prevent the then mayor’s son, Marcelo Hodge Crivella, from taking charge of the municipal Civil House.
In May, he resigned from his position at RioCentro, where he had worked for 1 month. As he was unable to be terminated, in June, he went to court to be fired.
