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The Public Accountants Order reveals that it has opened disciplinary inquiries to 11 professionals for allegedly giving in to pressure to falsify billing data, in order to allow companies to have access to state credit lines in the context of the 19 covid pandemic .
The disclosure is made by the president of the Order of Public Accountants (OCC), Paula Franco, in statements to TSF and Rádio Renascença.
“Proceedings were sent to the Jurisdictional Council, in the disciplinary part, of those of whom we had knowledge that they yielded,” says Paula Franco, noting that “about 11” cases were detected.
The OCC had already denounced the existence of situations in which some banks would be pressuring accountants to “give a small margin” in the billing statements of companies, in order to allow access to lines of credit with the guarantee of the State.
Paula Franco highlights that the OCC also presented complaint to the Public Ministry, but the president says that “the pressures continue.”
“Hopefully with a serious evaluation by the Public Ministry these situations are beginning to stop being a problem ”, he adds.
The president also points out that these are accountants “who were replaced by others who yielded to this pressure when the original counter did not yield“.
“If there really is evidence of these situations, sanctions will be applied to the accountants who did it,” promises Paula Franco.
The president takes the opportunity to verify the seriousness of the situation, since the lines of support for covid-19 are financed “with public money, that is, the guarantees are from the State ”.
“We are all those who, if these taxpayers do not meet their obligations, we will pay,” he concludes.
