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The Federal Police on Wednesday launched 29 (29) the second phase of Operation Pedra no Caminho, which detects evidence of corruption in work carried out in the northern part of the Rodoanel. At this stage, only search and seizure warrants are executed at addresses related to the OAS Construction Company in Bahia and São Paulo.
In June of last year, during the first phase of the operation, 14 people were arrested in São Paulo. At the time, the Attorney General 's office estimated that the overfilling of the facilities of Rodoanel Norte was in the order of 600 million rubles.
According to the PF, evidence of criminal offenses different from those subject to the original investigation has now been identified and a new police investigation has been opened. The identification of new items was only possible after the badysis of documents and statements.
According to researchers, the OAS led the builders involved in the project and outsourced the services. According to informants, the outsourced companies returned to OAS the remaining money because there had been too much payment. With the surplus, the OAS paid bribes to Dersa, the state company of São Paulo, responsible for the suspicious work of Rodoanel.
On Wednesday, federal police officers executed four search and seizure warrants in the cities of São Paulo (SP), Santana do Parnaíba (SP) and Salvador (BA). All were sent, at the request of the PF, by the Fifth Federal Criminal Court of São Paulo. The targets were two OAS directors, the construction site and OAS externalized archives.
At this stage, the crimes of active bribery, pbadive bribery, money laundering and participation in a criminal organization, punishable by sentences ranging from 2 to 12 years in prison, are subject to investigation.
The report attempts to contact the OAS and Dersa.
When the first phase of the operation was launched in June, the company said that "the current leaders of the construction company have provided the authorities with all the details concerning the activities and contracts at the about which questions arise – in the project Rodoanel Especially and in all the others that he executes ".
On this occasion, Dersa said in a note that the government and the organ of São Paulo "are most interested in the progress of the process". "If there is a potential damage to the public treasury, the state will take appropriate action, as it has done on other occasions," says the note.
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