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northFriday morning, Witzel, a former judge and governor-elect of Rio de Janeiro in 2018, was accused by the Attorney General’s Office of participating in illicit schemes to divert resources from the zone health during pandemic gives COVID-19-19, having been removed from his position for 180 days by order of the Superior Court of Justice.
Edmar Santos had already been arrested in early July for alleged embezzlement and fraud of resources destined to the acquisition of medical material to combat COVID-19-19, having subsequently closed an award agreement (legal benefit granted to a defendant who agrees to collaborate in the criminal investigation) with the authorities.
The information you provided in that agreement led to the removal of Witzel the position of governor.
According to the ex-secretary’s complaint, to which the press had access, the money from the bribes was divided as follows: 30% for Edmar Saints; 20% for Governor Wilson Witzel; 20% for evangelical pastor and president of the Christian Social Party (PSC), Everaldo Dias Pereira, who was detained on Friday; and 15% for each of the operators Edson Torres and Victor Hugo Barroso.
Edmar Santos also revealed that bribery payments were made by credit card, travel and cash.
Since the early hours of Friday, the prosecutors of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF), federal police officers and tax auditors carried out various arrest warrants and search and seizure of homes linked to the main names of the ‘Fluminense’ government.
In addition to Witzel, among the targets are First Lady Helena Witzel, the deputy governor of Rio de Janerio, Cláudio Castro, and the President of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj), André Cecilian .
HE MPF indicated that the law firm of First Lady Helena Witzel It was used to negotiate the payment of bribes to her husband.
The office, which had no other employees, received 554 thousand reais (86.3 thousand euros) suspected of being bribes to the governor, among 13 August 2019 and 19 May of this year.
Although it was also the objective of the operation, Cláudio Castro took office on Friday afternoon as governor, after Witzel have been removed.
Castro was the subject of search and seizure warrants only, and neither his arrest nor his removal was determined.
The operation, baptized of “Tris in Idem “, is a branch of Operation Placebo, which investigates corruption in public contracts of the government of Rio de Janeiro in zone of health.
The name of the operation is a reference to the fact that he is the third governor of the state. presumably would use similar illicit schemes to gain undue advantage.
“As found by investigators, following Wilson’s election Witzel structured in âscope from the state government, a criminal organization, divided into three groups, that disputed power by paying undue advantages to public agents, ”reads a statement about the operation published by MPF Brazilian.
Investigators suspect that in this alleged illicit scheme “the main mechanism for obtaining financial resources by the groups was through targeting offers from social organizations, through the establishment of a ‘box’ [fundo] bribery “.
In this way, the “collection of a percentage on the payments of remains to be paid to the state supplier companies” would be produced.
One of the behavior object operation refers to the hiring of the Social Organization Iabas to manage field hospitals designed to treat patients with COVID-19-19 na pandemic.
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