Rachadinhas in Alerj: MP asks to investigate if there are more nuclei and members in the supposed scheme of Flávio Bolsonaro | Rio de Janeiro

The deputy affirms that the then state deputy Flávio Bolsonaro led the gang.

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Prosecutor Ricardo Martins, author of the accusation against the senator today, asked in the complaint to the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro “authorization to share all the evidence collected” to be used in other cases, as a way to open new arms research.

The working group has so far found a deviation of approximately R $ 6 million from Flávio Bolsonaro’s office in the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj).

According to the prosecutor’s argument, there are two sources of activity and analysis of the ramifications of the alleged criminal organization.

The first is to find “involved in some crime of money laundering practiced in store acquisition operations Copenhagen”, In Shopping Via Parque, in Barra da Tijuca, in the West Zone of Rio.

The MP wants to deepen the investigation of fraud “in the functioning of the society Bolsotini Chocolates e Café LTDA”. According to the complaint, Flávio Bolsonaro used the Bolsotini company to, together with his partner Alexandre Ferreira Dias Santini, buy the franchise of the chocolate shop.

At least three other units of the same franchise belong to people close to Flávio Bolsonaro and his former assistant, Fabrício Queiroz, which would collect part of the salaries of the employees of Alerj’s office, according to the complaint.

Obstruction of justice in Alerj

The complaint against the then state deputy also asks the Justice to open an investigation front on “the practice, in theory, of the crimes of obstruction of justice”, Involving a server linked to the Presidency of the Legislative Assembly, Matheus Azeredo Coutinho.

Matheus is cited in the complaint as the central figure in an act of obstruction of justice on January 14, 2019.

That day, says the deputy, former assistant to Flávio Luiza Souza Paes, “Under the direction of the server Matheus”, “effectively manipulated the evidence of embezzlement crimes by inserting false information in public documents retroactive signing of the 2017 points records, with the clear purpose of shaming investigations into the criminal organization that diverted public resources through the cracking scheme ”.

As the deputy points out in the complaint, most of the certificates of presence in Flávio Bolsonaro’s office were made in a generic and global way, with a letter signed by the chief of staff, Miguel Braga Grillo, who occupies the same role in the Flávio Senate team.

Known as Colonel Braga, made a document supporting the presence of all employees at the same time – and sent that letter to the President of Alerj.

Under this bonus model, employees did not need to use time cards, commonly used individually by each server.

OR G1 He found that MP investigators work on the hypothesis that Luiza, possibly under pressure and with the help of Matheus, tried to fill out time cards that, until then, were blank, retroactively, eventually making mistakes. It would be a way to take responsibility for your attendance, pushing crime away from above, and giving an appearance of normality to your work at home.

Matheus has already been the subject of searches requested by the MP. The boy joined Alerj as a management intern in 2017. On September 5, 2018, the current president of Alerj, André Ceciliano, appointed the child to the position of assistant in the Department of Personnel Legislation, which is a kind of Human Resources (HR) of the Fluminense Legislature. After the cracking scandal, he was exonerated.

A TV Globo He tried several times to obtain explanations from Alerj about the suspicions against the former server Matheus Azeredo Coutinho, always without success.

The reporting team tried to find out if Luiza actually managed to alter her attendance records and find out what changes she would have made. Sources heard by G1 I suspect that the press inquiries about the timesheets in Flávio’s office may have been answered with data produced after the alleged adulteration done with the help of the HR server.

The reporting team also tried to obtain records of Matheus’ work, to try to map the documents he accessed, the offices and what he did with each one.

TV Globo entered two orders via Access to Information Law. In the first, he requested data on Matheus’ performance. In the second, all the documentation related to the attendance of the former server Luiza Souza Paes. By order of the attorney general of the Legislative Assembly, Sergio Pimentel, who holds a position of trust in the president of Alerj, André Ceciliano, all requests were denied.

Flávio, Ceciliano and several other deputies are being investigated for unusual movements in their offices, with the suspicion that they would also make “crackers”, a scheme in which the assistants return part of the salary to the parliamentarians.

Now, the deputy wants to know if Matheus acted alone or if he had the approval of his superiors. There is the hypothesis that Alerj’s HR could be used by several offices, both to cover up the existence of ghost employees and to correct late distortions in filling out time sheets, especially after the authorities began to investigate the closing scheme.

Requests made by the MP that the data from the current investigation be used in other investigations have yet to be responded to by the courts.

It will be up to the Special Body of the TJ-RJ to decide whether all the material collected so far can be used by the promoters to discover other possible ramifications of the scheme.

OR G1 contacted the office of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, where Michel Braga also works. In a statement, the defense said that, due to the “secrecy of justice,” “it is prevented from commenting on details, but guarantees that The complaint against Flávio Bolsonaro is unsustainable“.

Between the procedural vices and the narrative and mathematical errors, the accusatory thesis forged against the senator is unworkable and is nothing more than a macabre and poorly designed chronicle, influenced by groups that have clear political interests and that are now trying to return to power. The complaint, with so many errors and vices, should not even be received by the Special Agency. All defects in the form and substance of the complaint will be scored and treated in a suitable document at the appropriate time.

Defense of Luiza Souza Paes He says that he has not yet been notified of the offer of the complaint and, therefore, he does not know its content and “it is not possible to make any kind of comment.”

A Alerj sent the following note:

“The investigations into the conduct of the employee Matheus Azeredo Coutinho are in charge of the Justice and Alerj has made himself available and has collaborated with all the information that has been requested.

Former employee Luiza Souza Paes worked in three different sectors between 2011 and 2017, a period prior to the current management. Initially in the office of former deputy Flávio Bolsonaro, then in TV Alerj and later in the Plans and Budgets sector.

The responsibility of the attendance of the personnel to the cabinets is of the deputies, and in the departments, of each director. The presidency does not have this responsibility, since the sectors have autonomy.

The presidency is not aware of the possible cracking practice involving employees Luiza Paes and Fabrício Queiroz. He reports that he has collaborated with the investigations and reiterates his trust in the Justice to clarify the facts.

OR G1 contacted the others mentioned, but did not receive a response until the last update of this report.