‘Tip HQ’: see unpublished messages and testimonies of MP investigated in the management of Crivella | Fantastic

The conversations suggest that this group had carte blanche to extort money from businessmen and had no qualms about putting the mayor himself against the wall, with orders and even threats.

According to the complaint, the scheme would have started from the electoral period, in 2016. Fantastic shows the testimonies and unpublished conversations. See the full report in the video above.

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Mayor Crivella posted two videos on Saturday (12) on social media to defend himself against the prosecutor’s accusations.

He denied having interfered to prevent the degradation of the Grande Rio and Império Serrano samba schools in 2018. According to Crivella, the city was consulted and responded that the decision would fall only to the League of Samba Schools, but Crivella did not respond to the main complaints. of the investigation of the MP.

According to the mayor, the raids carried out by the Public Ministry at his home and at his City Hall office found nothing. He said he is accused of everything, but is not charged in any lawsuit.

Crivella gathered around him the team from the city council that is in charge of tenders and who, according to him, are all career servants with more than 30 years of service. He claimed to be absolutely sure that all the bids were held, in the mayor’s words, “in the sacred interest of the people.”

Marcelo Crivella also said that he collected billions diverted by companies in court and opened disciplinary proceedings against employees convicted in Lava Jato and that it was he who also filed a lawsuit against social organizations that practiced illegality in the area of ​​health and prohibited new contracts with the public sector. in addition to imposing a millionaire fine on OS Iabas. These actions, according to him, annoy many people.

And this Sunday (13), the city of Rio refuted the accusations of the Public Ministry regarding the negotiations with Grupo Assim Saúde. Thus, Saúde was the only one to present a proposal. Grupo Assim Saúde did not comment on the accusation of having paid a bribe in exchange for the contract. In a note, he only said that he has been dealing with the city to financially balance the contract against rising operating costs.

The defense of Marcelo Faulhauber, a former mayor’s marketer, says that he did not participate in any criminal scheme and that he is willing to provide all the clarifications to the authorities. The lawyer for businessman Rafael Alves said that the charges against him are reckless and have no commitment to the truth and that the Public Ministry interpreted the messages found on Rafael’s cell phone in a malicious and biased way. LIESA, the League of Samba Schools and the Grande Rio and Império Serrano schools did not want to demonstrate.

Crivella’s former campaign coordinator, Mauro Macedo, did not respond to Fantastic.

On Saturday, Jornal Nacional showed that the Public Ministry claims to have found evidence that the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God was used to launder corruption money in the Rio mayor’s office under the leadership of Marcelo Crivella. The researchers cited atypical movements of almost R $ 6 billion in one year in Universal’s accounts.

In a note, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God said that it was not legally cited about the complaints and that it is unaware of the existence of the document related to them and described as immoral what it called a leak of information by the authorities without the party involved knew the investigation. . It also says that all its financial transactions are “completely legal” and declared to the competent bodies.

The church also affirms that, under Mayor Marcelo Crivella, “any bishop or pastor who decides to enter the political career leaves his functions in the church, beginning to dedicate himself exclusively to public activity.”

Universal also says that there is no economic relationship between Marcelo Crivella, his political campaigns and the church and that he does not participate directly or indirectly in activities of political parties in Brazil and in any of the other countries where he carries out missionary activity.

Universal also affirms that “in the last 30 years, no Brazilian religious institution has been so persecuted, attacked, inspected and tried with Universal. It also affirms that in all the processes, the church and its officials have been acquitted.” And he concludes by stating that the complainants that he describes as infamy, responded in court for what he calls false accusations and prejudices against Christians.