Almost four years after a party leader asked to leave office, OO removed from the function. Since August 2021, when he requested his replacement in the State Directorate of, until April 2025, the national PT has currently paid a corresponding amount to R $ 8.2 million to his companies for audiovisual services, information technology and communication.
Of the total spent on the companies Log Produções & Filmes and Dindue, both owned by George Barcelos, R $ 7.6 million were paid while he was still on PT-DF leader-after his departure from the post, the PT continued to hire its companies.
The values raised by Sheet “And corrected by inflation, as well as the others cited in the report – only refer to direct hiring between the PT and the two companies.” During the period, Log Produções also received R $ 194,000 from the party to provide services to the party.
Barcelos and the PT denied the report conflict of interest in hiring. The PT-DF stated that it turned off the manager in August 2021, but took four years to inform the TRE-DF (Regional Electoral Court of the Federal District) because of “bureaucratic disorganization”. Urissanê did not answer the questions of the Sheet.
Since 2021, the PT has signed more than 200 contracts with Log for the party’s direction, production, funding, and live event services, including Libras and Subtitled Interpreters services for the videos, as well as equipment rental. This included hiring the company, for R $ 51 thousand, for the transmission of the inauguration of in January 2023.
Only in 2025, between January and September, LOG received R $ 1.4 million from the party, divided into 29 contracts, the highest in the amount of R $ 120 thousand for technical services provided in May, June and July.
Dundue, in 2024 and 2025, closed 15 contracts with the party for technology services, including last year one in the amount of $ 37,000 to create the Brazil Hope Federation website, formed by PT, B and PV PC. The company was also responsible for creating apps, an online radio and a party online store.
Barcelos has been a member of the PT-DF directory since April 2015 and has held positions as Secretary of Finance and Secretary of Communication.
Affiliated since adolescence, the report was created between Rio Grande do Sul and. He reported approaching the party’s heads when he acted in the student movement, when he met the Federal Deputy (RS) today, former minister of the Lula Government Secretariat, and when he was deputy secretary of the Secretariat of Children and Adolescents in the management of Agnelo Queiroz (2011-2014), in DF, after being a tutelary counselor.
The first contract signed by Log with the PT was through Urissanê in May 2021 during the pandemic to help put the project, focused on female participation in the party, through video lectures, site creation and content production. From the following month, it began to be hired directly by the party for similar services in other areas.
“As a company, Urissanê paid a tax and I, another [nas contratações pelo PT]to do a service that I was thinking that it was actually for the PT. Then, at one point, I suggested: Why doesn’t the PT hire me directly instead of this double taxation? “He said.
According to Barcelos, as he had computer expertise, he was first called to assist in the technical area at a time when the party started to hold many video events because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In February 2022, for example, the log was hired by the PT to assist in the transmission of the event. Made during the pandemic, the ceremony, live, demanded the participation, from home, from various party leaders through their own cameras.
There, he said, he thought he no longer integrated the PT-DF leaders’ board. Although he did not see any impediment to his own hiring, especially since he was not paid for his performance in the directory, he reported that, to avoid embarrassment, he asked to leave the regional management a few months after starting services to the party.
On messaging exchanges for whatsapp and emails, to which the Sheet He had access, Barcelos asked a manager to remove him from his role in August 2021.
“From the Whatsapp groups, since now everything is resolved by WhatsApp, they removed me. I no longer went to the meetings, no longer participated in the groups, no longer participated in anything.”
The change, however, was not formalized in TRE-DF. Barcelos claimed to have realized that he was heading as a leader, at least on paper, when he went to verify the regularization of his PT affiliation to vote for. He said he reiterated the request to leave the post and that when he asked about the delay, he heard that the process was bureaucratic and that the group eventually forget to make the exchange.
PT-DF, in a statement, confirmed Barcelos’s request to leave the state board in 2021 and said that, on the occasion, in addition to the pandemic, the directory lived an internal reorganization with scarce resources, “which caused at the time, the breaking of the contract of the whole team and, consequently, a bureaucratic disorganization.”
“The slow warning to TRE-DF occurred due to administrative problems of the regional directory,” he said.
Already the national PT stated, by means of note, that there is no indication of conflict of interest or improper favoritism in the case of Barcelos.
“The hires are duly proven and linked to party activities. The previous performance of the partner of companies as a member of the diverse party instance of the national did not include any participation in administrative or contractual decisions of the party management.”
