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BRASILIA – The diplomat Alberto Luiz Pinto Coelho Fonseca, close to Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, received a dollar salary and housing allowance in Paris, France, to spend most of last year in Brasilia, where he worked with the Foreign Minister. According to Itamaraty, payments were made in accordance with current law.
In addition to the monthly salary of around 12 thousand dollars (around R $ 66 thousand) and housing assistance of 48.6 thousand euros throughout the year, Alberto earned R $ 36.6 thousand in daily allowances to live in Brazil for more than eight months in 2019, according to data obtained through the Access to Information Law (LAI). Adding salaries to bonuses, daily rates and air tickets, the cost of the servants in the year was approximately R $ 1 million.
Itamaraty sources report that Alberto would have stayed in Paris longer to formally complete his period of experience abroad, necessary to advance his career. For this reason, the delay in its definitive transfer to Brazil in January 2020.
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The diplomat was first summoned on an official mission in Brazil, still under Bolsonaro’s transitional government, in December 2018, and only returned to Paris in April of the following year. Then he returned to spend the month of May in Brasilia. From the end of July to October 2019, he was again in the federal capital.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, the server was called to work on the creation of the “Special Adviser on Strategic Management (AEG) of Itamaraty”. “The service call period was proportional to the demand for work necessary to achieve its objectives,” says the ministry.
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“At the end of the service call, it was decided to withdraw said official diplomat to Brasilia, thus shortening his original period of service at the Brazilian embassy in France in approximately one and a half years. Referring to the case, which also includes those related with the diplomat’s trips abroad on official missions, they were calculated and paid in accordance with current legislation, in particular article 34 of Law No. 5809/72, and in accordance with the recommendations of the supervisory bodies, “adds the organ.
