The ADPF (National Association of Federal Police Delegates) ended a contract with the in October 2025, 1 month after the law firm was searched and seized.
The information was passed on to members this week, a few months after new management of the organization took office. According to the statement, those involved must update the data on individual causes by April 13th. The contract was for at least 14 years.
“Seeking the best legal service for our members, since October 2025 this association has signed a contract with the Barreto e Dolabella office”wrote the association.
O Poder360 He contacted Nelson Wilians’ office to ask if he would like to comment on the end of the contract. There was no response until the publication of this report. The text will be updated if a statement is sent to this digital newspaper.
The ADPF stated that the office took care of individual causes. Read the full note sent to this digital newspaper:
“The National Association of Federal Police Delegates (ADPF) clarifies that, in October 2025, the Association’s previous management decided to hire a new law firm to assist members individually in their administrative and functional demands. For this reason, the entity’s new board, installed in December 2025, decided to concentrate this type of action only in the new office. The concentration brings greater control, simplifies routines and facilitates the management of the relationship between members, the board and lawyers. ADPF reaffirms its commitment to transparency and good administrative management, basing its decisions on the best interests of the entity and its members.
“Brasília, April 10, 2026.
“National Association of Federal Police Delegates (ADPF)”
Understand the case
Nelson Wilians’ office is one of the largest in Brazil. The founding partner was searched and seized in September 2025, by authorization of the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court André Mendonça. The PF (Federal Police) had requested the lawyer’s preventive detention for suspiciously transferring R$28 million to a businessman being investigated in a fraud scheme involving INSS (National Institute of Social Security) associative discounts.
In the same decision, Mendonça authorized the preventive arrest of Maurício Camisotti, appointed as leader of the scheme, and lobbyist Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as “the bald guy from INSS”. Read the (PDF – 694 kB)
When analyzing the request for the imposition of precautionary measures against the 3 investigated, minister André Mendonça considered that, in the case of Nelson Wilians, “Acts that could constitute a risk of flight, attempted direct obstruction of investigations, or were capable of configuring –with the necessary rigor of probability– a context of continuity of criminal practices were not identified, on an individual basis.”
However, Mendonça ordered search and seizure actions to be carried out at addresses linked to the businessman. In total, in addition to the 2 preventive arrest warrants, 13 search and seizure warrants were executed in the State of São Paulo and the Federal District.
According to a magazine report Piauíthe PF found at the lawyer’s residence, in Jardim Paulista, in the West Zone of São Paulo (SP), a series of works of art, bronze sculptures, as well as luxury watches. Investigators seized at least 5 paintings signed by the painter Di Cavalcanti.
At the time, Nelson Wilians’ defense stated that his relationship with Camisotti was “strictly professional and legal“. He stressed that the amounts transferred refer to the purchase of land next to his residence.
The lawyers stated that “the measure carried out is of an exclusively investigative nature, not implying any judgment of guilt or responsibility”.
