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The Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro investigates 11 servers from the office of councilman Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicans) as alleged ghost workers in the Rio Chamber. According to a GloboNews report, they have received a total of R $ 7 million since 2001.
The channel assures that the figure, which has not been updated due to inflation, is attached to the investigation for embezzlement against the son of President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party).
According to GloboNews, an employee identified as Guilherme Hudson received almost R $ 1.5 million in the 10-year interval. He would make a five-hour round trip a day to take his wife, Ananda Hudson, to study. She was also part of the cabinet and received R $ 117 thousand in one year and five months.
The deputy tries to clarify how he did it to fulfill his obligations as a servant. He is said to have said in testimony that his role in the cabinet was to provide legal advice and analyze the constitutionality of the bills.
In addition, he claims to have had few email contacts with Carlos Bolsonaro and does not keep any documents from the period in which he worked for the president’s son. Guilherme Hudson would have become chief of staff after President Bolsonaro’s cousin and ex-wife, Ana Cristina Siqueira Vale, left office.
GloboNews also says that among the 11 employees whose salaries were reported to the MP, Ana Cristina ranks fifth, with approximately R $ 670 thousand.
The report also showed the case of the reserve military officer Edir Barbosa Goes. He, who still works as an advisor to the councilor, told the MP that his job was to deliver information about the councilor’s activities in the West Zone of Rio. Deliveries would be made door-to-door and in the lines of the banks. To fulfill the role, he received R $ 1.5 million in 11 years. According to the report, the last salary was paid in May of last year, in the amount of R $ 17 thousand.
The investigation also mentions elderly officials who live in other municipalities and even states, which would make it impossible to perform the job. According to reports, a 72-year-old woman from Nova Iguaçu, named Diva da Cruz Martins, received R $ 3,000 per month between 2003 and 2005.
“I didn’t know anyone. I went and came back, I don’t even know who worked there. I don’t even know who was an employee, who wasn’t,” he would have said.
GloboNews says that it sought the defense of Councilor Carlos Bolsonaro, but no one wanted to comment since the investigation is under the secrecy of Justice. Edir Goes said he would not speak.
Meanwhile, the defense of Ana Cristina Valle affirmed that the value cited in the report concerns several employees who worked for almost two decades in the office of the president’s son and that there is no evidence that she was a ghost employee.
Finally, in a note sent to the channel, the Rio City Council stated that it has a transparency portal so that the population has access to activity data and that the number of employees, nominal list of employees and salaries can also be consulted.
The Chamber also reaffirmed “the commitment to publicity and information transparency, as a fundamental principle for the improvement of democracy.”
