Flávio Bolsonaro's law office billed at least 13.7 million reais in three and a half years

Flávio Bolsonaro's law office issued invoices totaling at least 13.7 million reais between January 2023 and July 2026. The information was revealed by UOL based on an analysis of 62 tax documents issued by the senator's firm.

The office is located in the house where Flávio lives in Brasília and is managed remotely by an employee who lives on the outskirts of the federal capital. Payments to the office were directed to bank accounts held at Santander and BRB.

“The Brazilian Bar Association is demanded for years by international organisms to resist the adoption, in advocacy, of elementary standards.”

One of the identified accounts at Santander is the same one that, according to the Federal Police, would have links to Flávio and lawyer Willer Tomaz. Both deny sharing a bank account.

The largest client identified in the invoices is Nilo & Almeida Advogados Associados, whose partner Edvaldo Nilo de Almeida was appointed by former president Jair Bolsonaro to the Presidential Public Ethics Commission in 2022. The firm appears in two invoices of 2 million reais each, issued in August and October 2025, together representing 29 percent of the documented revenue of the senator's firm.

The documents describe the services as "legal consultancy" without identifying cases or detailing the work performed. Both invoices indicate an account of Flávio's office at the Bank of Brasília (BRB) for payment. Edvaldo Nilo told UOL that the amounts are related to a contract signed in April 2025 and denied any irregularity.

A survey by O Globo mapped at least 18 cases across the country in which the firm appears as a party. Processes under secrecy do not appear in the count. Although modest in volume, its presence in courts covers diverse themes: the parliamentarian has already signed petitions in criminal, civil, and business areas.

Transparency International-Brazil publicly demanded explanations from Flávio about the origin of at least 13.7 million reais billed by his law office while he exercised the senator's mandate. The organization questions how a firm registered at the parliamentarian's residence, without other lawyers or employees, managed to obtain million-dollar contracts in a few years of operation.

The organization also questioned the hiring of an administrator whose brother was arrested in an investigation into fraud at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), in addition to the senator's financial relationship with lawyer Willer Tomaz, investigated in inquiries involving money laundering and betting platforms. The entity related the questions to the debate on mechanisms for financial supervision of law offices in Brazil and criticized the Brazilian Bar Association's resistance to implementing controls intended to prevent the use of legal services in illicit operations.