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The group led by Pastor Everaldo Pereira, national president of PSC, used oranges, real estate, offshore and fractional deposits to launder money diverted from government contracts in RJ, says the Federal Public Ministry (MPF).
The politician and his two sons, Filipe Pereira and Laércio Pereira, were arrested this Friday (28) in Operation Tris in Idem, who also ordered the removal of Governor Wilson Witzel (PSC-RJ).
Financial intelligence reports show R $ 884 thousand in deposits divided into cash in the accounts of two companies controlled by Everaldo and his sons. The movements point to schemes prior to the arrival to power of Witzel.
According to the MPF complaint, Everaldo “made dozens of deposits in kind, in fractional amounts, in order to hide the total amount of transactions, in a typical money laundering activity.”
“The need to cover up the illicit amounts received led those investigated to carry out a series of acts of money laundering, whose financial transactions were detected by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF, formerly COAF).”
The documents show that EDP Corretora de Seguros, which has the pastor and the children as partners, received 176 cash deposits no total value of 741,739 R $ between June 3, 2015 and May 13, 2020.
Laércio de Almeida Pereira Individual Law Firm, individual company of Laércio Pereira, registered 37 cash deposits, totaling R $ 143,154, between January 2, 2017 and May 18, 2020.
Pastor Everaldo is arrested in an operation that removed Witzel from the government of RJ
The FIU alerts also reveal that Pastor Everaldo paid R $ 2 million for an apartment on Avenida Gláucio Gil, in Recreio, Zona Oeste de Río, using cash to settle part of the operation.
They also show that his son Felipe Pereira, who was also Witzel’s assistant, bought a property for a price well below the market. He paid R $ 401 thousand for an apartment in Rua Joaquim Cardoso, in playground, valued at R $ 1.2 million. And it disbursed R $ 35 thousand in cash.
Pastor Everaldo was summoned on behalf of the former state health secretary
Pastor Everaldo was cited in the award speech of the former Secretary of Health, Edmar Santos, for his influence in the Guanabara Palace. The former secretary was arrested for corruption. According to the complaint, Pastor Everaldo was in charge of Health.
According to a document that accompanies the procedures authorized by the STJ, Everaldo would be the leader of one of the groups that make up a “sophisticated criminal organization” that has “the common objective of diverting public resources and carrying out money laundering, among other crimes.” .
The MPF affirms that the politician commands the second arm of the organization “as if it were the owner, some sectors of the Public Administration of the State of Rio de Janeiro, mainly on the hiring and budgets of Cedae, Detran and the health portfolio of the State of Rio de Janeiro”. January”.
They are also part of the group of pastor Víctor Hugo Amaral Cavalcante Barroso, a financial operator, in charge of “making contacts with public agents and businessmen, indicating the companies and social organizations that must be hired by the Rio de Janeiro Health Secretariat”; and Edson Torres, who, according to Edmar Santos, is the de facto owner of companies contracted by the State and was in charge of appointing him to the position of Secretary of State for Health in Rio de Janeiro so that he could exert influence over the portfolio.
Another member of the criminal organization is Marcos Dias Pereira, brother of Pastor Everaldo. It controls OS Nova Esperança, which manages the emergency room of the Bangu Penitentiary Complex.
According to the MPF, the SO is formally managed by an “orange”: Cláudia Marta Pessanha de Souza. She had a monthly income of R $ 500 until 2008 and is receiving emergency help in the quarantine period due to Covid-19.
The documents accepted by the STJ show that Laércio’s company made fractional transfers to a company owned by Uncle Marcos, Marcos Dias Comércio de Pescado, in the amount of R $ 40 thousand.
Another expedient adopted by Everaldo’s group to launder money was the use of offshore companies based in Uruguay and Switzerland, according to the MPF.
According to the documents, Víctor Barroso, operator of the scheme, is domiciled in Montevideo, Uruguay, and created at least three offshore companies. Tremezo S / A, South America Properties LLC and Firbank Corporation registered in the name of her mother and sister to hide illicit money, the MPF notes.
In the complaint, the prosecutors point out that Juárez Fialho da Silva Junior, Secretary of Cities of RJ and treasurer of the PSC, is the owner of the offshore Procorre Consulting SA. And that he is Victor Hugo’s partner in USS Holdings, one of the partners of Fênix Segurança e Transporte de Valores, involved in the state government’s resource diversion scheme.
Understand who is Pastor Everaldo and his influence on the government of Rio de Janeiro.
What stakeholders say
Pastor Everaldo Pereira said he asked the STJ last week to be heard. And he was surprised this Friday (28) with his arrest and the search and seizure carried out at their homes.
Pastor Everaldo reports that on August 19 he sent a petition to the STJ requesting to be heard.
This Friday morning, he was surprised by his arrest and the search and seizure carried out at his homes.
After being arrested, Pastor Everaldo asked to be heard today. The testimony, however, should only take place on Monday the 31st.
Pastor Everaldo reiterates his trust in Justice. “
Attorney Marcos Crissiuma said that “the temporary detention that falls on the children of Pastor Everaldo is extremely unjust and unnecessary.”
“The order was given only to be heard, but they could have been summoned to respond to the summons and provide all the clarifications.”
