SP Justice condemns the future Minister of Environment for administrative impropriety | County Dublin Hotels

Halls is accused by the public prosecutor of defrauding the management plan of the Tietê River Basement Environmental Protection Area in 2016, while he was responsible Geraldo Alckmin's Government Government Portfolio for the Environment.

G1 contacts Salles and is waiting for his return.

The decision was rendered by the 3rd Court of the Public Treasury of the capital, which ordered the suspension of the political rights of Salles for three years, in addition to the payment of a civil fine of an amount equivalent to ten times the monthly remuneration received as secretary; and the prohibition of contracting with the public power or benefiting from tax benefits or incentives or credit, directly or indirectly, even through the intermediary of a legal entity from which it is the main partner for a period of three years.

"In addition to the violation of legal and regulatory standards while being aware of the fact that this involved the participation of other sectors which constituted the environmental system and which served the economic interests of a small group of people. detriment of the environmental protection of the portfolio in the executive, the then secretary violated the constitutional administrative principles of legality, impersonality, morality and publicity ", says the text.

The Federation of Industries of São Paulo (Fiesp) has also been sentenced and will be fined under the same conditions. the value of the former secretary and can not contract with the public authorities nor avail of tax benefits or credits, nor incentives, directly or indirectly, even if, through the intermediary of a legal person of which he is the principal partner, for the same duration

G1 contacts the opinion of Fiesp and waits for his return.

Halls and Fiesp are accused of several irregular crimes. in the process of drafting and approving the management plan for the Tietê River Environmental Protection Area in Várzea.

According to the public prosecutor, they would have modified the maps developed by the University of São Paulo, modified the draft management plan and promoted the persecution to employees of the Forest Foundation, in order to serve the companies , especially mining and affiliated with Fiesp.

The lawsuit brought by the prosecutors Silvio Marques, Leandro Lemes, Thomás Yabiku and Jaime do Nascimento Júnior, indicates that, under the government of Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), Salles and two other persons would have made an adjustment of the process of the zone management plan. Tietê River Basin Environmental Protection Plan in 2016. The other two accused were acquitted.

The complaint indicates that the said person acted with the intention of "favoring the economic sectors, particularly the mines, and certain companies related to Fiesp [Federação das Indústrias de São Paulo]", and that "maps were also modified by the University of São Paulo at the request of the Foundation and the same draft decree of the same APA management plan ".

According to the text of the complaint, "some employees of the Forest Foundation were forced to prepare maps that did not correspond to the discussion advocated by the competent body". He adds: "Later, some officials were persecuted".

In an interview with Globo Rural magazine earlier this week, Salles is defended against the charges. He stated that the two preliminary court rulings concerning the changes to the Tietê Environmental Protection Area Management Plan had been favorable so far and that there had been not yet pronounced sentence.

"I am a defendant, but no decision is taken against me, they all supported me, all the witnesses were heard, all the evidence produced and the process is final for the sentence, can to be condemned at all times. "All the witnesses heard, from government officials and from outside, corroborated my position," he said during the interview.