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In messages obtained by the MP-RJ (Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro) in mobile chat applications, businessman Rafael Alves – pivot of the alleged corruption scheme known as “Bribery Headquarters” – tells several interlocutors that he was “biggest investor” in the campaign that brought Marcelo Crivella (Republicans) to the Rio City Council in 2016. TSE data analyzed by Twitter However, they show that Crivella did not receive any official donation from Rafael Alves in 2016.
Sergio, the money changer Mirzahy —Who reported the existence of QG bribery in complaint awarded- He told the deputy that the resources he says he laundered for Alves in 2016 were used in Crivella’s campaign. However, MP-RJ has not yet obtained evidence that this money was used for electoral expenses and maintains that it may have been used for other illegal purposes.
The candidate for the re-election of the Republicans, who raised R $ 9.66 million in the 2016 campaign, denies that the businessman made donations that year.
The electoral legislation determines that all donations to electoral campaigns are recorded in the rendering of accounts delivered to the Electoral Justice. Transfers made outside the official campaign accounting constitute a monetary offense 2.
As it is an electoral crime, cases of suspicion of cash 2, such as that of Crivella, can lead to criminal proceedings in the Electoral Court following an investigation by an electoral promoter.
According to the investigation, the alleged criminal scheme began during the electoral dispute, with the collection of bribes from businessmen as an “advance.”
‘I played a large part of the campaign,’ says the businessman
The first mention of this role was made by Rafael during the electoral campaign, according to the investigation. In conversation with Marcelo Faulhaber, then Crivella’s marketer, on September 8, 2016, he says: “Today I am the biggest investor. I don’t want a position or a status. I want a return on what is invested.” The original spelling of the messages was kept.
The printed message was attached by the MP-RJ in the request for precautionary measures that led to Operation Hades 2, launched last week.
Messages from Rafael Alves to Marcelo Faulhaber obtained by MP-RJ on seized cell phone
Image: Playback / MP-RJ
The same type of statement appears in another message sent by Rafael Alves in a group that also included Marcos Luciano, one of the mayor’s closest advisers and designated as the leader of the Crivella Guardians. Another unidentified contact was also in the chat.
“Crivella must think I am a child,” Alves begins. “Or he must have amnesia for everything I did and know …”.
After complaining that he was not received by the mayor, Alves insists on this argument. “Nobody deserves that,” he complains. “Furthermore, I played a large part of the season.”
Conversations of Rafael Alves obtained by MP-RJ on a cell phone seized during operation
Image: Playback / MP-RJ
Old relationships with Crivella Party
His failure to make formal donations to the Crivella campaign in 2016 interrupted a history of giving that reveals Rafael Alves’ closeness to Marcelo Crivella and the top of the Republicans.
In an interview with CNN, Crivella stated that he is not friendly with Rafael Alves.
“I have no personal relationship with Rafael. Sometimes, I saw him in the church where I preach. Every Sunday I am in the church of Barra and I have seen him there a few times,” he said.
However, the mayor of Rio held a routine meeting with the businessman, according to the MP-RJ. Crivella even attended Alves’ daughter’s birthday party in January 2017, just days after it was inaugurated.
Also according to Crivella, he met Alves during an election campaign.
“Rafael is from my party. I met him at the PRB. He was a mayoral candidate there in Angra dos Reis. At that time I was a senator and he asked me to go to support him in Angra dos Reis. In my opinion he is an honest person and honorable. I know his daughter, his father. And his brother did a spectacular job in Riotur [companhia de turismo do Rio]. “
However, TSE records show that Alves has not run for mayor or deputy mayor in Angra since Crivella was elected senator in 2002.
HE Twitter He asked Crivella when and in what context this request for political support from Rafael Alves took place, but received no response.
Alves had already made generous donations to Crivella and his party in 2012 and 2014.
In the 2014 elections, he donated R $ 200,000 to Crivella’s campaign, being the largest donor among people. In the same election, the businessman also allocated R $ 300 thousand to the state directory of Republicans, until then called PRB, in Rio.
In 2012, Alves had already dedicated a large volume of resources to the party: he allocated R $ 245 thousand to the Republicans.
Other side
HE Twitter sent four questions to the mayor about the messages and contributions of Rafael Alves in the electoral campaigns of Crivella and the Republicans.
However, the mayor limited himself to stating, through his advisor, that “there was no contribution from Mr. Rafael Alves to Marcelo Crivella’s campaign in 2016,” without answering the other questions.
The report asked Crivella when and how he approached Rafael Alves and the donations formally made by the businessman in 2012 and 2014 were intermediated. The mayor did not respond.
Crivella also pointed out that he “refutes the accusations and conclusions that are being made about his name. He considers an operation carried out in his house during the electoral period strange.”
The report also called and sent messages to Rafael Alves’ lawyer, but received no response.
In a note, the Republicans affirmed that “only acting in accordance with the strict precepts of the law, in this way, all the financial movement that is carried out can be found in the respective accountability processes that are filed before the Electoral Justice. . the rendering of accounts is public and can be consulted by any interested party “.
