Representative Beto Preto has until Monday (17th) to reach a settlement in impropriety case
Former Paraná Health Secretary negotiates with prosecutors, potentially avoiding conviction impacting political rights.
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16/4/2025
Pioneering app streamlines complex adoptions, renewing hope for children lacking family prospects.
Brazil's first app for the adoption of children and teenagers is celebrating its fifth anniversary. The anniversary is being marked with a ceremony in the plenary of the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná (TJPR), bringing together founders, professionals, volunteers, and judicial authorities. The launch date of A.dot, May 25th, is also National Adoption Day. The event is being streamed online so that the A.dot network, now present in nine states across the country, can participate. Watch the full ceremony.
The President of the State Judiciary Commission for Adoption (Ceja) of Paraná and founder of A.dot, Substitute Judge Sérgio Kreuz, is the first to speak. He says that "A.dot is a project that involves not only public authorities, such as the Court of Justice, but also civil society. Indeed, as enshrined in Article 227, it is the duty of the family, society, and the State to ensure the child's right to have, to live, and to grow in a family environment".
He explains that "only those children and teenagers who no longer have any chance of adoption through traditional channels are included in the app. In other words, they are already there because they haven't found prospective parents in the national, state, or local registry. Therefore, these are extremely difficult adoptions that would normally not happen".
And he celebrates that "845 children and teenagers have been featured on the app during this period [of five years], many of them with disabilities. We have confirmed adoptions data: 133 have been made through this app".
Kreuz moves the audience when he states that Paraná has more than four thousand children waiting for adoption, "who anxiously seek a family." He adds: "I always say that the child who is in a shelter is the poorest of the poor. Because this child has lost everything. They have lost their friends, lost their relatives, even lost their father and mother. So, it is up to us, as a society, as a State, to make every effort."
The presentation by journalist and A.dot creator, Adriana Milczevsky, begins with: "I want to tell you that if you hear any noise during my speech, it's my heart". She comments on the relationship between professional editorial production and A.dot. "There are many communicators within the group, and Dr. Sérgio believed, as we did, that communication is a tool for transformation. Through the app, more than one hundred lives have become sons and daughters".
Vice-president of the TJPR, Judge Joeci Machado Camargo, proposes the following reflection: "We all believe that we can bring a little happiness, that we can bring a little of our work. But not our bureaucratic work [...], but from our hearts. We see children here who, in one way or another, are sheltered. And when we leave here and look at the streets? We will find homeless children".
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Former Paraná Health Secretary negotiates with prosecutors, potentially avoiding conviction impacting political rights.
Federal Congressman for Paraná, Beto Preto (PSD), has until Monday (17th) to accept or reject a deal with the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP). The summons was ordered by the 1st Court of Public Finance of Apucarana (PR), relating to a case of administrative impropriety.
As a condition for closing the case, the MP proposes that Preto compensate for damages and pay a fine of R$ 25,000. In the lawsuit, the prosecution points to losses to public funds caused by a fraudulent bidding process in 2013, amounting to R$ 127,194.43.
Beto Preto headed the Health Department in Paraná during the pandemic. It was then that he made a name for himself in the election that took him to Brasília. He is currently on Governor Ratinho Júnior's shortlist for succession to the Iguaçu Palace. If convicted of an act of impropriety, he could have his political rights suspended.
According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, Beto Preto, then president of the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Ivaí Valley (Cisvir), contributed to a bid-rigging scheme by assisting a criminal organization led by the deceased businessman Marcelo Cernescu.
The then-president approved a bidding procedure without considering several irregularities. The scheme involved, according to the MP, shell companies and the contracting of services considered unnecessary because they should have been provided directly by the public administration.
In the initial petition, the prosecution describes illegalities in the bidding process for the contracting of an object described as "unnecessary, costly, and flagrantly illegal".
Furthermore, the elements gathered in the investigation indicate that, to achieve the illicit objectives, regardless of the contracting municipality, a similar modus operandi was employed, consisting of a joint effort between public officials and businessmen of the group to "assemble" bidding processes for the contracting of an unnecessary, costly, and flagrantly illegal object, whose acts bear clear indications of concealment.
—Initial petition of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
For the MP, the items in the bidding process do not justify hiring a private company, and it is a mere artifice "unequivocally created for the diversion of money from public coffers".
Congressman Beto Preto even had his assets frozen, along with the other defendants. Due to a change in the Administrative Improbity Law approved in 2021, the judge in the case ordered the unfreezing of the assets.
Micro-doc reveals Jenin camp reality, a symbol of Palestinian resistance in the West Bank.
Ten Palestinians were killed and one hundred injured by Israeli military forces in one of the largest operations against Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in years.
Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank, where Jenin is located, since 1967. This represents 56 years of illegal occupation, violating international law.
Palestinians are the largest refugee group in the world. They have lived in refugee status for 75 years, both abroad and within Palestine itself, without the right to return to their regions of origin or even to move freely within their own country.
Palestinians have the right to resist the illegal occupation, the expulsion from their homes, and the chronic violence to which they are subjected.
We, writer and journalist Cassiana Pizaia, and analyst and journalist Vinícius Sgarbe, produced a micro-documentary about Jenin over a year ago, following two trips to the Middle East.
