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At a time when he was still detained in the Judicial Police Prison, Rui Pinto was called to say what he knew about this case and his statements ended up opening a new investigation front.
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Beginning by clarifying that he was “aware of a scheme related to the Lava Jato operation and that has to do with the Odebrecht company,” Rui Pinto said that they had nothing to do with the dams (that is, with the Baixo Sabor dam) but with “The construction of hotel and residential developments in Brazil.”
Rui Pinto specified the construction of the Reserva do Paiva project (which includes a hotel, housing and business center) as a project that allegedly involved “the UK-based companies Doyen Capital LLC, Promovalor de Luís Filipe Vieira and Odebrecht do Brasil ”.
The revelation that Doyen Capital participated in the project is surprising because the information released by the promoters never included that Turkish-Kazakh group. According to various news items published in 2011 in Portugal and Brazil (examples here, here and here), when the project was presented publicly, there were three protagonists:
- The Promovalor group (owned by Luis Filipe Vieira), which ensured part of the real estate development, idealizing the project and obtaining the approval of the Brazilian public entities;
- The Odebrecht group, which built the hotel and other buildings through the Odebrecht Realizações Imobiliárias subsidiary;
- And the Starwoods Hotel group, which under the Sheraton Hotels & Resorts brand, had a long-term hotel management contract.
In other words, no reference to the Doyen Group, which led Rui Pinto to the idea that “this connection was not intended to be made public.”
Through an investigation by the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) news consortium, the Doyen Group has been linked to several cases of corruption, tax fraud and money laundering in countries such as the United States (where it will have done business with Donald Trump companies) , Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Iran, among others. Led by the Turkish-Kazakh Arif family, the Doyen Group has its roots in the mineral and petrochemical extraction business in Kazakhstan, but eventually expanded to Turkey (where it has privileged ties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan) and other Asian countries. It ended up gaining notoriety when it entered the brokerage business by selling footballers’ passes (through Doyen Sports Investments and Doyen Global Investments) and is currently being investigated in several countries, such as Portugal. , where one of its subsidiaries has accounts blocked on suspicion of money laundering, according to Expresso.
