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The Brazilian Federal Police found 30 thousand reais (almost five thousand euros) hidden between the buttocks of Senator Chico Rodrigues in an operation that investigates the embezzlement of public funds destined to combat the covid-19 pandemic.
Chico Rodrigues is Vice President of the Government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in the upper house of Congress.
The seizure of the money hidden between the senator’s buttocks was revealed by Crusoé magazine on Wednesday night.
Chico Rodrigues was one of the targets of the operation “Operation Desvid-19” that was carried out at the request of the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), a control body, in the state of Roraima.
In this operation, the police are investigating an alleged criminal scheme for the embezzlement of public funds by sending offers to the Roraima Health Department, which would imply approximately R $ 20 million (three million euros) that should be used to combat covidity. 19.
CGU said in a statement that it identified several indications of the practice of inflated prices in contracts made by the Roraima Health Department for the purchase of protective equipment for health professionals from doctors and nurses and rapid tests for the detection of covid- 19, among other items. .
“The police investigation indicated that the funds were directed, through fraudulent bidding processes, to specific companies, which were then hired by the secretariat,” said a statement issued by CGU on Operation Desvid-19.
The state of Roraima received around 171 million reais (26 million euros) from the central government through the National Health Fund (FNS) in 2020.
Of this total amount, 55 million reais (8.3 million euros) went specifically to combat covid-19.
“Operation Desvid-19” carried out seven search and seizure warrants in the city of Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima.
Brazil is the Portuguese-speaking country most affected by the pandemic and one of the most affected in the world, accounting for the second number of deaths (over 5.1 million cases and 151,747 deaths), after the United States.
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