MP says he found evidence that the Universal Church was used to launder money from corruption in the Rio City Council | Rio de Janeiro

HE G1 contacted the Universal Church, but received no response until the publication of this report.

The analysis is present in a 262-page document, signed on September 2 of this year, sent to the Justice by the MPE-RJ Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Ricardo Ribeiro Martins.

In that request, the one that G1 had access, the deputy attorney general mentions the existence of a Financial Intelligence Report (RIF) of the Financial Activities Control Council (COAF), a body linked to the Ministry of Finance, noting that the religious entity “was the subject of a communication due to identification of financial transactions of R $ 5,902,134,822.00 ”, between May 5, 2018 and April 30, 2019.

G1 found that the RIF collects information from several CNPJs of the IURJ. And it includes cash inflows and outflows, as well as bank transfers. The atypical movement record in a COAF RIF does not mean the necessary occurrence of a crime.

According to the MPE-RJ, the fact that justified the communication to COAF is related to article 1, paragraph I, paragraph “b” of Circular No. 3542 of the Central Bank of Brazil. This section of the standard deals with “transactions in kind carried out by customers whose activities are characterized by the use of other resource transfer instruments, such as checks, debit or credit cards.”

In documents obtained by the G1, there are no details on how this alleged money laundering would work. The deputy attorney general, however, makes this statement after analyzing various evidence gathered, including: “the atypical multimillionaire movements” of the IURD, the “notorious link” of Crivella with the church and “the implication of Mauro Macedo in the criminal plot ”.

Mauro, cousin of Edir Macedo, founder of the IURD, coordinated political campaigns for the current mayor of Rio and is mentioned in the Lava Jato complaints as a recipient of Caixa 2. According to the Public Ministry, Mauro recruited businessmen to participate in the most various corruptions.

Another element used in the MPE-RJ analysis are the messages from the cell phone seized in March, with Rafael Alves, during the first phase of the operation. Despite not having a public office in the municipality, Rafael Alves would have enormous influence in the government, and the leads followed by the MPE-RJ show that he would collect and collect bribes from suppliers, possibly with endorsement and in alliance with Crivella.

Rafael Alves spoke of church in messages

At the beginning of 2018, Rafael Alves sent several messages to the interlocutors expressing “frustration with the spaces he occupied in the government” – and saying that he could reveal to the authorities “all the corruption and money laundering schemes that occur in the government” , with the “direct participation of Marcelo Crivella, his family and the church, expressly alluding to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Iurd)”.

In a message sent on January 19, says the MPE-RJ, Rafael Alves writes: “Nego destroys a politician. I work with a church. “Then he continues, according to the researchers:” I just don’t want you to mess with my brother or be my space. ” Finally, Rafael Alves affirms: “By doing this, I destroy the church, etc.” Rafael’s brother, Marcelo Alves, came to occupy the presidency of RioTur – and had been suffering a process of attrition with other Crivella allies, until he was exonerated in March of this year, after the first phase of the operation.

For MPE-RJ, Rafael indicates that, “if he breaks with Marcelo Crivella and his criminal organization”, the harmful effects will be great because “it is about money – and a lot of it – and solid information”. The prosecutor points out that “Rafael Alves makes it clear that he knows and controls various criminal activities of the government, under the direct leadership of Marcelo Crivella.”

Rafael’s cell phone is considered a “bomb piece” in the investigation by prosecutors. But it was not easy to get to the device. In March, in a search against Rafael Alves, handed over an empty cell phone to authorities. Suspects found another phone hidden in clothing. Two others were in the car of the operator’s wife, Shanna García, daughter of the mean Waldomiro Paes García, Maninho, who was murdered in 2004.

Mayor Marcelo Crivella declared that there is nothing in the process that describes any illegal act he carried out. He also said nothing was found in his home, office, bank or cell phone records.

Rafael Alves’ defense said that he refuted the accusations, which he described as hasty and said that he had tried, for more than nine months, to provide clarifications to the Public Ministry, but did not have that opportunity.

The Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) and the Civil Police of RJ registered this Thursday morning (10) in the City Hall, in the mayor’s house and in the City Palace, where they dispatch. Agents seized Crivella’s cell phone.

The action of this farm is a development of Operation Hades, of March of this year, that investigates an alleged ‘HQ bribery’ in the City of Rio. The judicial decision that authorized Operation Hades this Thursday (10) affirms that behind the actions of Mayor Marcelo Crivella in the City of Rio is Rafael Ferreira Alves, who has no position in the municipal administration. Prosecutors claim that Rafael and Crivella have a leading role in a corruption scheme in the Rio City Council.

Through his press office, Crivella said that the operation was “strange” and “unjustified” and that, last week, he was with the Public Ministry to make his banking, telephone and fiscal secrets available (see what the mayor).

The investigation was opened at the beginning of December by the MPRJ, based on the accusation of the money changer Sérgio Mizrahy. He was arrested in Operation Câmbio Desligo, a branch of Lava Jato in Rio.

According to the complaint, the operator of the scheme is Rafael Alves. Rafael does not hold any position in the mayor’s office, but, according to the newspaper O Globo, he became one of Crivella’s trusted men for helping him make possible the donation of resources from companies and individuals in the 2016 campaign.

The RJ2 showed on Friday (11) that the messages exchanged between Rafael Alves, designated as mayor Marcelo Crivella’s trusted man (Republicans), and the marketer Marcelo Faulhaber reveal disagreements between the members of the scheme set up in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

In one of the passages, the marketer calls Rafael Alves a “suicide bomber” for knowing illegalities in the government. Faulhaber says the mayor was aware of the corruption schemes.