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RIO – The Public Ministry of the State of Rio de Janeiro (MP-RJ) carried out a search warrant and seizure at the house of the former mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, this Tuesday morning. The information is from GloboNews. The order was issued by Judge Flávio Itabaiana Nicolau, who accepted the complaint against Paes and four others investigated by the Specialized Action Group to Combat Corruption (Gaecc) in the 204 Electoral Zone. They are suspected of crimes of corruption, misrepresentation and money laundering.
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According to G1, MP-RJ agents were at Paes’s house and, around 7:30 am, they left with documents. The action takes place about two months before the first round of the municipal elections, scheduled for November 15. Paes made his candidacy official last week for the Rio City Council for the Democratic party. Even with the acceptance of the complaint, you will have no impediments to contest the election since you have no conviction in this process.
In a statement, Paes’s publicist said the former mayor was “outraged” at having been the subject of a search and seizure action “in a clear attempt to interfere with the electoral process, as he did in the 2018 government elections. of the State “and that” the defense did not even have access to the terms of the complaint “to comment.
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