Brasilia - As time goes by, with a tight election year calendar, the establishment of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to investigate the Master case is becoming increasingly uncertain.
To circumvent this political climate, Congressman Rodrigo Rollemberg (PSB-DF) is already considering filing a lawsuit with the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to try to pressure the justices into ordering the Speaker of the House, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), to establish the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry).
“I raised a point of order with Hugo Motta and have already demanded a response. If it takes too long, I will go to the Supreme Court, because there is nothing preventing the establishment of the CPI,” Rollemberg told NeoFeed . “If there is political will, there is no impediment to having the Master CPI.”
Rollemberg is the author of the first request for a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) filed in the Chamber of Deputies, which gathered 201 signatures – 171 federal deputies need to sign for a CPI to be established.
Former governor of the Federal District, Rollemberg argues that, according to the Chamber's internal regulations, the Master CPI could only be prevented from being established if there were five CPIs operating simultaneously. On the other hand, Motta has stated in recent days that the Master CPI would be at the end of the queue of requests for the establishment of other CPIs.
However, Rollemberg points out that the issue of the "queue of requests for a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry" may be a practice of Speakers of the House, but it is not provided for in the House rules.
"No one [no congressman] has been putting pressure against it, but some leaders who signed the CPI are dragging their feet with Motta to delay its installation," he says.
Rollemberg is relying on jurisprudence created by the Supreme Court itself in 2021, when 10 ministers of the Supreme Court decided that the Covid Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry should be established, since there was a sufficient number of parliamentary signatures required by the regulations. At the time, only Minister Marco Aurélio was in the minority and disagreed with his colleagues on the Court.
In addition to pressuring the Supreme Court to force the Chamber of Deputies to establish the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry), Rollemberg has also been requesting information from the Central Bank regarding the Master investigations.
Behind the congressman's move lies a local political dispute: Rollemberg is a political opponent of Ibaneis Rocha and wants the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, once established, to summon the current governor to provide clarifications about BRB and the attempted purchase of part of Master, in addition to the suspicious operations revealed by the Federal Police.
In general, Ibaneis has been the target of criticism from the Federal District's representatives in Congress (not just the former governor), who hold him responsible for the crisis experienced by BRB.
The public bank in Brasília, involved in the alleged fraud scheme estimated at over R$ 12 billion with Master, is controlled by the local government, administered by Ibaneis.
