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In this eschatological story of the senator of underwear-savings, the problem is not even the unusual place chosen by Chico Rodrigues to hide the cash.
What intrigues me the most is the reason.
He could have hidden the money in the closet and claimed anything, I don’t know, which was the payment of the sale of cattle or the debt of a friend, as Bolsonaro claimed when they discovered the first check from Queiroz in Michelle’s account, even earlier to take office. . And there was no further discussion.
What can drive a sixty-year-old man, a leading deputy in the Senate, a former friend of the president, to despair to risk this monumental shame upon seeing the police enter his home?
It’s very amateurish, let’s be honest. Or did you imagine that the police would not suspect anything when they noticed the size of your savings?
He gave me the impression that he had just received another portion of the usual bribe, and was still counting the notes, when he was caught on the spot, having no time to hide his anger.
Good citizens
Having cash at home is not a crime, as long as the origin can be proven, of course.
That is the problem with Rodrigues and many other Bolsonaristas, good citizens, used to buying real estate with a lot of cash, loaded in suitcases and backpacks, when it would be much easier to make a bank transfer.
After proceeding with the necessary money laundering (literally), the Federal Police now have to find out where the savings came from, what paths they took until they reached the senator’s piggy bank.
If it is shown that it was a diversion of funds to fight the pandemic, then it is a heinous crime, which may have caused the death of COVID-19 patients in Roraima.
The price of Centrão support
Surprised by the case, after announcing the day before that he would “blow the neck of the corrupt,” Bolsonaro was quick to say that it was not his problem and that the vice president of the government had nothing to do with the government. There is only, and a lot.
It begins with the distribution of funds from the Ministry of Health, through parliamentary amendments, which mediate the application of resources in their electoral strongholds and indicate the companies that provide equipment for hospitals, in exchange for a modest commission.
This is the price paid for Centrão’s support of “governability,” which makes the lower clergy’s fortune.
How many other cases like that of Chico Rodrigues have not occurred in the parliamentary amendment party sponsored in the midst of the fight against the pandemic?
Guys walk around …
They put the senator in flagrante delicto, but if you look closely, how many other schemes like yours do not continue to work, while the country accumulates more than 150 thousand deaths and registers more than 20 thousand new cases of contamination per day?
If we really want to fight corruption, ending parliamentary amendments would be halfway there, but who has the courage to do it? Here the hole is lower.
Cautiously, Rodrigues invested his earnings in real estate, a common practice among the senator’s finances.
When he ran for the Senate in 2018, after five terms as a federal deputy, by various parties, the senator declared a net worth of R $ 1,999,315.15. He was quite modest in the calculation.
Guaranteed future, with equity and child as a substitute
Among the properties that make up the list of assets, he registers a beautiful mansion in IQ 25 of Lago Sul, a noble neighborhood of Brasilia, declared at a modest R $ 150 thousand, where he lived before requesting a functional apartment for the Senate. free at our expense.
The mansion was sold in 2019, but Rodrigues also has two floors in the Hotel Metropolitan, in the North Hotel Sector of Brasília. In addition, he owns another mansion and 18 plots in Roraima.
If everything goes wrong, the future of the family is guaranteed. If he loses his mandate, who assumes the position is his son Pedro Arthur, his alternate, also affiliated with the DEM.
From father to son, the old politics survived in Centrão, always in power, whatever the government, now in alliance with the military, militiamen and evangelicals.
Good weekend.
Life that goes on.
