São Paulo's Civil Police sent the Federal Police in Brasília, on Wednesday, documents from Operation Wi-Fi, a raid carried out in June against the Instituto Conhecer Brasil (ICB), a nonprofit tied to the production company behind a biographical film about former President Jair Bolsonaro. The transfer follows an order by Justice Flávio Dino of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF), who approved a Federal Police request to access the material, according to G1.
The ICB is owned by Karina Ferreira da Gama, who is also a partner in Go Up Entertainment, the production company behind Dark Horse, a film about Bolsonaro's political trajectory. São Paulo's Civil Police is investigating suspected fraud in a public Wi-Fi contract with the São Paulo city government worth 108 million reais (about 19 million dollars) a year. None of those involved has been formally charged; the case remains at the investigative stage, and Brazilian law presumes their innocence until any conviction.
How the case reached the Supreme Court
The federal inquiry opened after Dino asked Brazil's federal comptroller general (CGU) to examine congressional earmarks, known in Brazil as 'emendas parlamentares,' a mechanism that lets lawmakers direct federal budget funds to specific projects. The earmarks in question, from lawmakers Mário Frias, Marcos Pollon and Bia Kicis, were funneled to the ICB and to another nonprofit, the Academia Nacional de Cultura (ANC), both allegedly coordinated by the same group led by Gama. Investigators want to determine whether public earmark money helped finance the Bolsonaro film.
Federal Police told the Supreme Court the institute sits at the center of the earmark investigation and argued that material already seized by state police from the NGO's offices, from Gama and from other affiliated companies could deepen and speed up the federal probe. Dino found the request justified and consistent with the court's standards for sharing evidence between police forces.
What was handed over
According to G1, São Paulo investigators sent the complete state-level case file, including documents, witness statements and investigative reports, along with raw evidence such as data already extracted from seized phones. Some devices had not yet been processed by the state forensic institute, either because they were still in a backlog or because São Paulo's systems could not break their encryption. In those cases, the physical devices themselves were sent to the Federal Police; if federal experts manage to access the data, it will later be shared back with São Paulo authorities.
With the material, the Federal Police plans to review computers, phones, accounting records, invoices, payment receipts and financial statements relevant to the inquiry, and to map out Gama's business relationships and any campaign donations tied to those under investigation. The film's financing has already drawn political attention: Governor Tarcísio de Freitas of São Paulo told Folha de S.Paulo on Wednesday he considers the matter 'settled,' referring to an episode in which Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (Jair Bolsonaro's son) asked banker Daniel Vorcaro for funds to help produce Dark Horse, adding that his view holds 'as long as nothing new comes up.'
No date has been set for the Federal Police to conclude its review under Supreme Court oversight. The next step depends on whether investigators can extract data from the pending devices and finish analyzing the material already transferred from São Paulo.