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The Public Ministry and the Civil Police of RJ raided this Thursday morning (10) in the City of Rio, in the house of the mayor, Marcelo Crivella (Republicans), and in the City Palace, where he dispatches. TV Globo discovered that agents seized Crivella’s cell phone.
It is an offshoot of Operation Hades, which investigates an alleged ‘Bribery Headquarters’ at Rio City Hall.
The 1st Group of Criminal Chambers of the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice issued a total of 22 search and seizure orders, requested by the Criminal Origination Law (Gaocrim) – which investigates public agents with privileged jurisdiction. There are no arrest warrants.
The Coordination of Investigation of Agents with a Civil Police Forum supported the operation.
HE G1 contacted the mayor’s office, but had no response until the last update of this report. Crivella’s attorney was at his apartment, but did not speak to the press.
Agents carry out search warrant at the City Palace, in Botafogo – Photo: Playback / TV Globo
Civil Police car at the door of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro, target of searches this Thursday – Photo: Playback / TV Globo
Other targets of the operation were Eduardo Lopes, Mauro Macedo and Rafael Alves.
Lopes was a Republican senator from Rio, when he inherited the position from Crivella, and was secretary of Livestock, Fisheries and Supply to Wilson Witzel.
Macedo was treasurer of Crivella’s campaign for the Senate in 2008 and was cited as a whistleblower for the bribery scheme involving the state’s Federation of Passenger Transportation Companies, Fetranspor.
Alves, brother of former Riotur president Marcelo Alves, is a businessman and was cited in reports as allegedly paying bribes to the city council.
The MP team fulfills a search warrant on Rua Luís Horta Barbosa, in Barra da Tijuca – Photo: Erick Rianelli / TV Globo
On March 10, the Civil Police and the MPRJ executed 17 search and seizure warrants. The agents were at the Cidade das Artes, in Barra da Tijuca, and at the addresses of Marcelo Alves, then president of Riotur, his brother Rafael Alves, and Lemuel Gonçalves, Crivella’s former adviser.
The MPRJ opened an investigation in early December, based on the accusation of money changer Sérgio Mizrahy. He was arrested in Operation Câmbio Desligo, a branch of Lava Jato in Rio.
In testimony, Mizrahy calls the city hall “Bribery Headquarters.” The money changer could not say if Mayor Marcelo Crivella knew of the structure.
According to the complaint, the operator of the scheme was Rafael Alves. Rafael does not hold a position in the city council, but he has become one of Crivella’s trusted men by helping him make possible the donation of funds in the 2016 campaign.
After the elections, the businessman registered his brother in Riotur and, according to the money changer, set up a “headquarters for bribery”.
Mizrahy says that companies that were interested in closing contracts or had money to receive from the municipality sought out Rafael, with whom they left checks. In return, it would mediate in the closing of contracts or in the payment of amounts owed to them by the municipal government.
