Politicians

Romero Jucá

Convicted (appealable)Passive corruptionMoney laundering

former senator (RR, 1995–2019) and president of the MDB in Roraima; convicted by the TRF-1 in July 2026 and sentenced to 9 years, 10 months and 15 days for passive corruption and money laundering (effects suspended by an injunction of the Supreme Federal Court, STF, in August 2026)

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Support for Jair Bolsonaro

In 2022, as head of the MDB in Roraima, he declared that the presidential candidate of the MDB/PL coalition in the state was Jair Bolsonaro, ruling out support for Lula, and said he spoke regularly with the then-president; in April of the same year he had spoken of an open platform.

Court cases and investigations

Criminal sphere

Criminal case against Romero Jucá over an Odebrecht bribe in a 2014 electoral donation (10th Federal Criminal Court of the Federal District; appeal at the TRF-1) — Convicted (appealable)

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