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The Goiás Public Ministry (MP-GO) filed a complaint against Father Robson de Oliveira Pereira and 17 other people for a criminal organization with the aim of obtaining an advantage. The complaint is the result of the investigations carried out in Operation Vendilhões, which began in September this year.
According to the parliamentarian, Father Robson would be the commander of a “criminal business organization that used associations and companies to carry out embezzlement, ideological falsehoods and money laundering for its own benefit”, thus diverting “resources collected on behalf of religious associations.” and for the stated purpose of building a basilica and performing acts of charity. “
Prosecutors accuse the priest of embezzling money from an association and passing it on to third parties. Wanted for TwitterThe defense of Father Robson said that the complaint “has nothing new” and that the priest is the target of “unfair accusations.”
The religious, who was president of Afipe (Associação Filhos do Pai Eterno), responsible for the Basilica of Trindade Shrine, in Goiás, is suspected of diverting around R $ 120 million in donations from the faithful.
In a note, Afipe said that “we trust the Justice and we hope that at the end of the process all doubts will be clarified”, and that “we are available for all the clarifications that are necessary to clarify the facts.”
“It is important to point out that the Association of Children of the Eternal Father is a non-profit civil entity with the mission of evangelizing. Afipe is not investigated or reported,” he adds.
On video sent to Twitter, the lawyer Pedro Paulo de Medeiros, who defends Father Robson, criticized the prosecutor.
“The complaint that is offered is nothing new. They are the same unjust accusations that the Public Ministry made in October, which are now being repeated. What the Public Ministry means is like a private association, which is like your home, or the mine”. home, how it should be managed. The MP means that as a private association, which does not receive a penny of public money, it has to spend its money. This is Afipe’s business, ”argued Pedro Paulo de Medeiros.
Complaint filed in October
In a trial held in October, which lasted about 40 minutes, the First Criminal Chamber of the Goiás Court of Justice had already filed complaints against Father Robson, accused of money laundering, embezzlement, criminal organization, falsification of documents and evasion. Supervisor.
Judge Nicomedes Domingos Borges, in his decision, affirmed that civil societies, as well as religious societies, are legal entities of private law and that, therefore, “there is no need to speak of any typical fact to be investigated, such as their members Cancel and agree to all commercial acts carried out, especially in view of the absolute agreement with the allocation of resources according to the legal provision, there is no deviation of values or deviation from its statutory object, and there is no need to speak of any irregularity committed within the entity, especially by the patient as its administrator / president “.
The judge ordered “the interruption of the coercion to which he is subjected for lack of elements that authorize the continuation of the investigations, which would lead to the proposal for criminal action.”
The Public Ministry appealed the decision.
Operation Vendillions
The investigations of the Public Ministry of Goiás into the participation of Father Robson de Oliveira Pereira in the diversion of R $ 120 million culminated in Operation Vendilhões, which took place on August 21. The following day, the religious left the presidency of Afipe, linked to the Basilica of the Eternal Divine Father, in Trindade.
The amount would have been used, according to the MP, for the acquisition of real estate, including a farm of R $ 6 million in the city of Abadiânia in Goiás, and a beach house, in the amount of R $ 3 million, in Guarajuba (BA).
The investigation began in 2018, when Father Robson was a victim of extortion and allegedly paid around R $ 2 million for not having videos exposed on the Internet.
