Orlando Silva de Jesus Júnior (born 27 May 1971) is a Brazilian politician affiliated with the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB).

[1] In the first year of the Lula administration, Orlando was chosen to succeed Francisco Cláudio Monteiro as executive secretary of the Ministry of Sport after his resignation on November 18, 2003.

In 2005, he was decorated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with the Order of Rio Branco in the rank of Grand Officer.

Between the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008, Orlando Silva was the subject of allegations of irregular spending on corporate credit cards distributed by the federal government to some civil servants to cover extraordinary expenses.

The press reported that the minister had made some payments to restaurants on days when, according to the schedule published by the ministry on the internet, there would be no official commitments.

In order to avoid any misunderstanding, Orlando asked for an audit to evaluate what happened and to obtain transparency in the result.The ministry even justified at the time by claiming that there were "update problems" in the dissemination of the schedule.The report of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry that investigated the matter found the minister not guilty.