Revenue will determine if there was an unlawful act of auditors that detected a possible Gilmar Mendes fraud | Politics

The determination responds to the request of the President of the STF, Dias Toffoli. Gilmar Mendes sent an official letter to the president of the court asking for "urgent measures" to take notice in the press of a tax document proposing to carry out an "inspection" on him and the woman.

"The secretary immediately decided that the Internal Revenue Service of the Federal Revenue Office should begin its investigation.The decision made by the special secretary of the Federal Revenue has been ratified by the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes", indicates a statement issued by the press office of the Ministry of Economy, to which the Federal Revenue Service is subordinate.

The existence of this document was revealed in a report published on Veja magazine's website on Friday morning. G1 had access to the document.

According to the document of the tax administration – a "tax interests badysis" – the organization's special anti-fraud team indicates clues of corruption, money laundering. money and traffic influence of the minister and his wife.

For the Minister, the determination has "an obvious bias in the criminal investigation" and is not the jurisdiction of the tax servers. Gilmar Mendes says in the letter that he has not yet received a subpoena and that the documents leaked to the press do not provide any concrete facts.

"What causes a great distance and deserves an immediate repudiation, it is the abuse of power of public officials for the obscure purposes, concretized by a deliberate strategy of attack of the reputation on predetermined targets, "the minister wrote in a letter sent to the president. of the FTS.

Before the demonstration of Gilmar Mendes, Toffoli then questioned the Attorney General of the Republic, Raquel Dodge, the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, and the Secretary of Revenue, Marcos Cintra.

In a statement released on Friday, Unafisco (National Association of Tax Auditors of Brazilian Federal Income) said that the investigation into the Gilmar Mendes affair "can not prevent the additional work of the Federal Service of income. "

According to the entity, any violation of the Minister's tax secrecy "must be strictly determined and punished in such a way as to guarantee a wide and contradictory defense to the accused".

But for Unafisco, "there is nothing illegal or abnormal in the existence of an investigation" in the tax life of Gilmar Mendes.