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Braga Netto

Military · PEP · Politician

Braga Netto is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Braga Netto · Walter Souza Braga Netto · Вальтер Брага Нетту · والتر براغا نيتو · والتر سوزا براگا نتو · 1 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	瓦尔特·索萨·布拉加·内图				[sources]
Birth date	1957-03-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Belo Horizonte				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Brazil				[sources]
Citizenship	Brazil				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Walter				[sources]
Tax Number	`*.217.537-`				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q49323012				[sources]
Position	Brazilian Army General Staff (2019-2020) · Chief of Staff of the Presidency Brazil (2020-2021) · Minister of Defense of Brazil (2021-2022)				[sources]
Education	Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-16	Last processed	2026-03-25	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

former Minister of Defence of Brazil (2021–2022) and former federal interventor for Public Security in the state of Rio de Janeiro (2018–2019)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-12-21

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Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,289

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Brazil Politically Exposed Persons120,041

This datasets encompass brazilian PEPs divulgated by the CGU

Brazil · CGU

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,369

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata328,021

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,248

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: br-pep-92942fd491a0326a6c601e6da4e3db2219e2ca20

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