By 370 to 110 votes, the Chamber of Deputies approved this Tuesday (18) the basic text of the bill to combat organized crime (PL 5582/2025). The deputies accepted the text presented by the rapporteur, deputy Guilherme Derrite (PP-SP), who changed parts of the original proposal sent by the federal government. The rapporteur presented five versions. 
The project provides for harsher penalties for members of criminal factions and seizure of assets of those under investigation.
Derrite argued that “confronting organized crime in Brazil requires war legislation in times of peace”. Government parliamentarians, contrary to Derrite’s opinion, say that the Antifaction project was distorted and decapitalizes the Federal Police.
Deputies are now analyzing the highlights, which may change excerpts from the base text. The project then goes to the Senate.
“We will return to the original text in the Senate”
“We will fight to return to this original text. We will modify it in the Senate to recover the government’s original purpose of combating the criminal faction”, said deputy Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ).
The parliamentarian highlighted that the project was prepared after more than six months of study.
Representative Jandira Feghali (PCdoB -RJ) argues that Derrite’s text ends up protecting criminal organizations.
“The report innovates with a public civil action that ends up delaying the confiscation of organized crime assets”, he criticized. For her, it harms the Federal Police investigation by decapitalizing the corporation. In the opinion, the rapporteur forwarded “the portion appropriate to the PF to the National Public Security Fund”.
Another criticism of the federal government is that Derrite’s opinion only allowed the State to assume the assets of the crime after the end of the criminal action, which could take years.
Representative Kim Kataguiri (União Brasil – SP) agreed with the rapporteur’s text that the action is necessary to recover the assets to be seized by the PF. “We still hear speeches here that we are defending white-collar corrupt people, that we are defending bankers”, he criticized.
The approved text provides for the prior seizure of the assets of the person being investigated in certain circumstances, with the possibility of forfeiting the assets before the final decision of the Court.
40 year sentences
The text increases sentences for faction or militia members to 20 to 40 yearswhich can reach 66 years for the leaders of criminal organizations.
The substitute also increases the time required to progress to the regime by 85% of the sentence. Grace, amnesty, pardon or parole for members of these organizations is prohibited.
MP autonomy
The text provides for participation of the Public Ministry in the cases of task forces that investigate factionsthrough Criminal Investigative Procedures led by Special Action Groups to Combat Organized Crime (GAECO).
Ultraviolent organization
The project brings the definition of ultraviolent criminal organizationdespite the criticisms that pointed out that the creation of a new criminal type could generate legal chaos in judicial processes that tend to benefit criminals.
Regarding custody hearings and trials of homicides committed by members of a criminal faction, the project provides that Custody hearings are held, “as a rule, by videoconference, unless a judicial decision is substantiated to the contrary”.
You Homicides committed by factions will be judged, in the first level of jurisdiction, by a collegiate and not by a jury trial.
Motta’s support
Before voting, the pro-government federal deputies even requested that the Anti-Faction Bill (PL 5582/25) be removed from the voting agenda in the Chambergiven that the original text would have been “disconfigured” by the opinion of rapporteur Guilherme Derrite. However, the vote was maintained by 316 votes in favor against 110.
The president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicans -PB), argued that the text would be the “toughest” response in the history of the Chamber of Deputies in combating organized crime.
“We are saying that heads of criminal factions will now go straight to federal prisons, that meetings with lawyers will be recorded, that there will be no conjugal visits”, he exemplified.
Motta stated that the federal government’s original project brought positive points, but that more attention was needed from other sectors and benches.
The Chamber called the substitute “Legal framework to combat organized crime”.
