Brazil
Key Facts
—Phone calls Federal Police identified 74 voice calls totaling more than 5 hours and 30 minutes between Senator Jaques Wagner and Augusto Ferreira Lima between November 17, 2023, and May 25, 2025.
—Search warrants On June 18, 2026, police executed 18 search-and-seizure warrants in the operation targeting Wagner and others in the Federal District, São Paulo, and Bahia, authorized by Supreme Court Justice André Mendonça.
—Carbon-credit bill Investigators found three amendments on Daniel Vorcaro’s phone tied to PL 412/2022, a carbon-market bill for which Wagner was rapporteur for under a month in November 2022. The amendments were presented by Senator Efraim Filho in September 2023, when Wagner was no longer rapporteur, and the police report records no direct Wagner-Vorcaro contact over the bill.
