Flávio Dino withdraws from appointment and announces new PRF commander

Less than 24 hours after announcing the new commander of the Federal Highway Police (PRF), the future Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dino, withdrew from the nomination. Now, the road police officer Antônio Fernando Oliveira will assume the Directorate-General of the agency, replacing the Secretary of Control and Transparency of Espírito Santo, Edmar Moreira Camata. Lawyer and federal road policeman, Antônio Fernando Oliveira has a post-graduate degree in tax law and is studying for a master’s degree in legal sciences at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (UAL). He will succeed the executive director and deputy director general of the PRF, Marco Antônio Territo de Barros, who will command the body until the end of December, after the dismissal yesterday (20) of director general Silvinei Vasques, accused of administrative impropriety for asking votes for Bolsonaro during the second round of the presidential campaign. Reviews Flávio Dino made the announcement a little while ago at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), where the Transition Office operates. Camata’s appointment received criticism from sectors of the PT and parties allied with the elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, because of the delegate’s performance in defense of Operation Lava Jato and posts on social networks praising, in 2018, the arrest of Squid. A PRF public servant, Camata holds a master’s degree in Anti-Corruption Policies from the University of Salamanca, with specializations in Integrated Management in Public Security and in Public Prosecution and Defense of the Legal Order. In the 2000s, he created the Movement to Combat Electoral Corruption (MCCE), a non-governmental organization that participated in the “10 Measures against Corruption” campaign, promoted by former attorney Deltan Dallagnol. When announcing the exchange, Flávio Dino said that the decision was made because the criticism would affect Camata’s work. “The thing is, it wasn’t a judgment call about what he thought [da Lava Jato]but in view of the controversy, of course in the future [Camata] he would not be able to dedicate himself as we would like”, he justified. When he announced the name of Camata, Dino said that the nomination met technical criteria. “He is a person who has extensive knowledge of the institution, since he has been a member of it for 18 years and, at the same time, has management experience”, the future Minister of Justice had declared yesterday.

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