Delegates, businessmen and lawyers are targets of Operation Misrepresentation 2, against corruption in the FP itself | Rio de Janeiro



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The Federal Police (PF) and the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) began on Thursday the Operation Tergiversation 2, against a suspicion of corruption within the FP itself.

The Seventh Federal Criminal Court of Rio de Janeiro issued two orders of preventive detention and 33 search and seizure orders. Among the objectives are a delegate from the PF and another from the Civil Police.

Those wanted had not been identified until the last update of this report.

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The first stage, in June last year, arrested an active PF delegate, a PF registrar and a lawyer.

The working group said at the time that the scheme excluded, by tip, the names of the businessmen and their companies from the ongoing investigations in a Federal Police unit. Six people were denounced by the MPF for crimes of active and passive corruption.

The second phase of Tergiversation aims other businessmen suspected of paying bribes to the police in exchange for protection. Attorneys designated as intermediaries to collect improper advantages are also targets of the task force.

The suspects are investigated for active and passive corruption, money laundering, misrepresentation, criminal organization and obstruction of justice.

The teams were in a building in Copacabana and in Via Parque Shopping, in Barra da Tijuca, from where they left with documents.

Federal Police agents execute orders in Operation Tergiversação 2 – Photo: Erick Rianelli / TV Globo

Operation Tergiversation 1

On June 11, 2019, the PF and the MPF arrested the head of the Federal Police Lorenzo Pompílio da Hora, the Secretary Éverton da Costa Ribeiro and a lawyer.

The PF affirms that the servers counted on the action of the operators, who used their contacts to approach those investigated and request the payment of undue advantages, in addition to making it possible to receive bribes and money laundering operations.

Payments between R $ 400 thousand me R $ 1.5 million they were, for the most part, made in cash. The other amounts were transferred by means of transfers to companies related to the operators.

During the investigations, the Police determined the breaches of bank, fiscal, telematic and telephone confidentiality of those investigated.

In addition, the investigation identified, after an award-winning collaboration agreement signed with some of the businessmen approached by the group, the practice of crimes of active corruption, passive corruption, criminal organization and money laundering.

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