Messias also worked as prosecutor in the
Central Bank of Brazil and the
Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), legal consultant in the
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, secretary of regulation and oversight of Higher Education in the
Ministry of Education, deputy chief of government political analysis and follow-up in the Chief of Staff and parliamentary assistant to senator
Jaques Wagner. He gained notoriety in 2016, after being mentioned in a phone call recording between then-president
Dilma Rousseff and former president Lula, who was being investigated as part of
Operation Car Wash and was nominated, but not yet sworn-in, as Chief of Staff. In an audio leaked by judge
Sergio Moro, Dilma informed that she would forward, through "Bessias" (Rousseff was sick), the term of office for use "in case of need". Regarding the mention in the call, Messias stated that, in that occasion, he was an assistant at the Presidency fulfilling his role and that the publishing of a cut and out of context audio aimed to destabilize Rousseff's administration. Messias is Bachelor of Laws at the
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and Master of Development, Society and International Cooperation at
University of Brasília (UnB). In November 2022, Messias was the most voted by his peers in a sixfold list for the office of Attorney General of the Union, made by the National Union of National Finances Prosecutors (Sinprofaz), the National Association of Members of the Attorney General of the Union (Anajur) and the National Association of the Attorneys of the Union (Anauni). ==References==