Ethics Commission maintains punishment of former Bolsonaro minister for ‘parallel cabinet’

The Public Ethics Committee (CEP) of the Presidency of the Republic rejected a request for reconsideration of the penalty applied to former Minister of Education Milton Ribeiro, of the government of Jair Bolsonaro, by the scheme of the “parallel cabinet” in the Ministry of Education (MEC). The case was revealed by Estadão in 2022.

The decision of the CEP, on Monday, 25, maintained the “ethical censorship” applied to the former minister. Punishment has an effect of a kind of “spot in the curriculum” and has nothing to do with any punishments in criminal or misconduct proceedings.

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The defense of the former minister said he will appeal to the judiciary against the decision to understand that it is “arbitrary and without empirical basis.”

The report of Estadão revealed that Milton Ribeiro allowed a group of evangelical pastors, with no formal relationship with the MEC, to interfere with the agenda and deliveries of the ministry. The group acted to favor the release of funds for allies.

The case led to the minister’s dismissal, who was arrested in investigation for influence trafficking and corruption. The official investigation of the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) followed the path of calculation outlined by Estadão.

The Ethics Committee understood that the reconsideration request did not bring new elements and could modify the previous understanding of April.

The defense of the former minister also claimed that the lawfulness of a recording in which Milton Ribeiro appeared talking about the distribution of public funds is being questioned in a police inquiry.

The zip code stressed that the ethical, criminal, civil and administrative spheres are autonomous and that the collegiate must act based on the prerogatives themselves.

“The focus of the analysis is only about the conduct initially practiced – characterized as contrary to the ethical precepts that govern the exercise of civil service,” said the rapporteur counselor, Manoel Caetano Ferreira Filho.