Members of the MST’s CPI will be able to make technical visits to settlements and places where there have been invasions.| Photo: Bruno Spada/Chamber of Deputies.

The rapporteur for the MST’s CPI, deputy Ricardo Salles (PL-SP), communicated that the Commission’s first diligence will be carried out next Monday (29). The diligence will be carried out with the Judiciary Police of São Paulo, in the city of Presidente Prudente. According to Salles, cases of property invasion in Pontal do Paranapanema will be investigated, under the investigation of the titular delegate of the eighth.

In February 2023, as part of actions called “Red Carnival”, the National Fight Front (FNL) occupied at least 9 farms in the Pontal do Paranapanema region. After the actions, two FNL leaders, José Rainha Júnior and Luciano de Lima, were arrested in a Civil Police operation. The investigations pointed out that the FNL leaders demanded financial advantages from at least six victims and, therefore, are being investigated for extortion.