Overview
- The DF appeals court, which ruled April 16, unanimously denied Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes’s bid to block journalists from using the nickname in their stories.
- Judges followed rapporteur Jesuíno Rissato, who wrote that the moniker is broadly used as a public identifier and shows no intent to insult, so it falls within normal newsgathering.
- A lower court rejected the complaint in May 2025, and the case now sits in the phase for clarification motions known as embargos de declaração.
- Antunes remains jailed as a lead suspect in Operação Sem Desconto, and Federal Police reports cite him by the nickname and flag ties to about 22 companies, luxury car seizures, and R$12.2 million moved in roughly four months.
- The PF and federal audit office say entities took about R$6.3 billion in improper fees from INSS benefits from 2019 to 2024, and by March the INSS had recorded 6.4 million challenges and nearly R$3 billion returned to beneficiaries.