Ciro Nogueira Lima Filho (born 21 November 1968) is a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, politician, and a member of the Progressistas (PP) party, of which he is the current president.

[2] Nogueira was the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro[3] from August 2021 to December 2022.

He holds a degree in law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ),[5] having started his public life as the heir of a family with a long political tradition in Piauí: his paternal grandfather, Manuel Nogueira Lima, was appointed as the mayor of the municipality of Pedro II after the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, and his father was elected as a federal deputy for Piauí for two legislatures, in addition to other family members who entered politics.

Affiliated to the former Liberal Front Party (PFL), he succeeded his father as a federal deputy, being elected in 1994, and re-elected in 1998.

The alternative report endorsed by the senator and another 20 members of the commission suggested the continuation of investigations by the Public Ministry and the Federal Police, but without any indictment or criminal responsibility.

In 2016, Ciro was involved in new scandals, being accused by Cláudio Mello Filho, from the Odebrecht Construction Board, of having received bribes for the 2010 and 2014 campaigns that benefited him and his wife at the time, the federal deputy Iracema Portela, the party which Ciro presides nationally, and who would have asked for bribes to finance party campaigns across the country in the amount of R$5 million.

The senator was also accused of receiving bribes from Construtora UTC, in the amount of R$2 million, in 2014, in exchange for favoring it in public works.

[13] Odebrecht, the largest and most often implicated company in Operation Car Wash, kept an entire department to coordinate the payment of bribes to politicians.

During the operation, officers seized several electronic spreadsheets linking the payments to then-unidentified entities, referred to in the company books by their assigned nicknames.

All politicians who participated in the scheme received a nickname based on physical characteristics, public trajectory, personal information, owned property, place of origin, or generic preferences.