Edmundo Pinto de Almeida Neto (21 June 1953 – 17 May 1992) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as governor of Acre from 1991 to his murder in 1992.

[1] Son of Pedro Veras de Almeida and Angelina Veras de Almeida, after obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Law from the Federal University of Acre he began his political career in the ARENA party, being defeated as a candidate for state deputy in 1974 and for councilor of Rio Branco in 1976.

After the end of bipartisanship during the dictatorship thanks to a political reform approved by the João Figueiredo government, Pinto joined the PDS and in 1982 was elected councilor in Rio Branco and state deputy for Acre in 1986.

In the early hours of 17 May 1992, Pinto was shot dead by three men in apartment 707 of the Hotel Della Volpe Garden on Frei Caneca Street in São Paulo.

[1] There were new investigations into the case in 1993 and 2003,[5] and it was the target of a CPI of its own in 1992 when Gilson José dos Santos, one of the accused in the killing of Pinto, said that he had received money to commit the crime.