PF says that advisor had approval from the presidency of the Chamber to divert amendments to Cunha

The investigation supported Dino's order to block R$6.15 million from Cunha due to alleged illegal interference in the direction of funds.

The PF documents reproduced in the STF minister's decision do not mention the name of deputy Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), but the dialogues between Cunha and Mariângela and the release of the funds took place in 2025, when he commanded the Chamber.

"Everything indicates that Tuca [Mariângela's nickname] had the full approval of the presidency of the House to promote the deviation of amendments in favor of Eduardo Cunha, intensifying a very high degree of promiscuity in the deliberation of the so-called secret budget", states the PF.

The president of the Chamber has not yet commented on Dino's decision and the PF's investigation.

On Saturday (11), Motta came to the defense of the PL president, Valdemar Costa Neto. He spoke of undue "judicial intervention" when referring to Dino's order to block R$119 million from the party leader due to suspected deviation of amendments.

In a note, Mariângela Fialek's defense states that she acted in a "strictly technical, non-partisan and impersonal way".

In the documentation sent to Dino, the Federal Police states that she "knew she was acting in a gray area" by allegedly circumventing formal flows to adjust the allocation of amendments "according to private interests".

The PF also says that Eduardo Cunha operates as a private agent with political powers equivalent to or even greater than those of sitting parliamentarians, "interfering in the direction of federal resources without any institutional authorization."

In dialogues between Cunha and Mariângela, reproduced by investigators, the former president of the Chamber also mentioned "Hugo" in September 2025. According to the PF, Tuca had sought out the former deputy to "apparently" send some information. After she sent and deleted a message, Cunha reportedly said: "I had it yesterday with Arthur. Hugo called me at night. Anyway, trying to help. But Arthur is right."

The excerpts from the investigation mentioned in Dino's decision do not explain whether Arthur is Arthur Lira (PP-AL), former president of the Chamber.

The decision to block Cunha's values is an offshoot of Operation Transparency, which investigates the former deputy's possible illicit interference in directing public funds, even without holding a parliamentary mandate since 2016.

According to the PF, the investigation shows that Cunha directly coordinated the allocation of at least 29 amendments from the Health Commission, totaling R$6.15 million.

Eduardo Cunha's defense said, in a statement, that he learned of the decision through the press and that he was not summoned or asked to provide clarifications before the asset freeze was decreed.

He also stated that Cunha does not hold a mandate and, therefore, did not present, sign or formalize any of the amendments mentioned in the reports. "The defense rejects the attempt to automatically equate legitimate political dialogue with the clandestine exercise of parliamentary mandate," he said in a statement.

According to the note, the blocked amount refers to the total number of amendments under investigation and does not prove a misappropriation of funds. The defense states that Cunha is unaware of irregularities in the processing of the appeals and informs that he will seek access to the records to exercise his right to defense.

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